World Literature Today, November 1st, 2007
Mary Oliver. Thirst. Boston. Beacon. 2006. xii + 71 pages. $22. ISBN 978-0-8070-6896-0
READERS WHO REMEMBER the Mary Oliver of American Primitive may wonder at the Orthodox Christian poet they encounter in these poems, poems with titles like "Making the House Ready for the Lord" and lines like "I wanted Christ to be as close as the cross I wear." In those early poems, we find a speaker who ecstatically identifies with the natural world--moles, bears, vultures, swamps--a speaker intent on entering into the living subjects she describes (think of Rilke's dinggedichte). There is such joy in th...
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