What Do We Know
Ponds, owls and the discipline of noticing, in the Oliver collection most openly concerned with what the noticing was for.
A 2002 collection moving between poems and short prose, attentive as always to ponds, owls and the discipline of noticing, but more openly concerned here with mortality and with what all that noticing was ultimately for. Among her less discussed books, and quietly one of her most searching.
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Maria Popova
one of Mary Oliver’s least known poems, found in her 2003 collection What Do We Know (public library)
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