Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet
Thirst (UK Edition)
Thirst introduces two new directions in her work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And in Thirst Mary Oliver chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades. In three of the book’s stunning long poems, she explores the dimensions and tests the parameters of religious doctrine.
Photographs
 – Mary Oliver, Summer 1964. Photo by Molly Malone Cook, from Our World (Beacon Press, 2007). |
Praise
“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.”
—Stanley Kunitz