Summary
“Dream Work is made up of poems that fulfill the demand of lyric poetry by being short, passionate, charged with emotion and its necessary companion, thought … The music in Oliver’s writing is unmistakable … Dream Work is an outstanding book.” —Los Angeles Times
In this collection of forty-five poems, originally published in 1986, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver turns her attention to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit, the paral…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593832677 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593832671 |
| Author: | Mary Oliver |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 79g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 127mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
“Dream Work is made up of poems that fulfill the demand of lyric poetry by being short, passionate, charged with emotion and its necessary companion, thought… . The music in Oliver’s writing is unmistakable… . Dream Work is an outstanding book.” —Los Angeles Times
Mary Oliver
Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.
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