Swan

Book cover of Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

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“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here…

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1 author picked Swan as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jennifer Read Hawthorne

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I would own this book for Mary Oliver’s poem “How I Go to the Woods” alone! Oliver’s love of nature, the way she notices the details of her surroundings, and the language she uses to describe her experiences are breathtaking. It’s easy to see why Mary Oliver won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

From Jennifer's list on poems about love, nature, and God.