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Blue iris
poems and essays
By Oliver, Mary
- ISBN
- 978-0-80706-882-3
- Publisher
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2004
These 32 poems and four essays offer rich meditations on flowers in nature, showing how plant life reflects the life of the human heart. Oliver, who won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive , brings echoes of George Herbert to the fresh ground of American flowers, fields, and wilderness. In the poem "Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater," we hear, "even s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
