Blue pastures
Publisher: Harcourt; Harcourt Brace
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Orlando, Florida, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780156002158
Copyright date: 1995
Description: With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ("the brother I did not have") and denounces cuteness ("we are, none of us, cute".) She notes where the extraordinary is to be found ("it is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker") and extols solitude ("creative work needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to").

Nature speaks to her, and she speaks to nature ("I put my face close to the lily, where it stands just above the grass, and give it a good greeting from the stem of my heart").
Notes: A Harvest Original