num_pages: 255
description: As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and knowledge of the natural world are all driven by a searching mind, expressed in poems that make for good company. In Some Questions You Might Ask, Oliver gives us this one to chew over: "Is the soul solid, like iron?/ or is it tender and breakable, like/ the wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?" Highly recommended. 
language: English
title: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: New and Selected Poems
genres: Queer Lit, Classics, Nature, American, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 1099
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Beacon Pr