God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God
"I feel very honored by this book and am made happy by it, as Thomas Mann has expressed so well what I have been about these last decades."  --Mary OliverI feel very honored by this book and am made happy by it, as Thomas Mann has expressed so well what I have been about these last decades. (Mary Oliver)His insight is keen. . . . Mann does not shy from going with Oliver into nature’s apparent cruelty—what we humans, by our morals, consider cruelty, that is—by which so much of the animal world survives. . . . Drawing our attention to the violence and to God forces the reader to contemplate God’s role in our world and our role in God’s. (Beth WoodwardWinston-Salem Journal)