Blue Horses

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry and impermanence. Whether considering a bird's nest, the seeming patience of oak trees or the paintings of Franz Marc, Mary Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. Blue Horses asks what it truly means to belong to this world and to live in it attuned to all its changes. 'To be human,' she shows us, 'is to sing your own song'.

About the author

Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-three. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Oliver died in January 2019.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Oliver
• Publisher: Corsair
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781472153746
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-5374-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Pulizer Prize for Poetry; Walt Whitman; American poets, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems