Thirst: PoemsThirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's 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 within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades. |
Contents
Messenger | |
Walking Home from OakHead | |
When I Am Among the Trees | |
The Poet Visits the Museum of Fine Arts | |
1 | |
Ribbon Snake Asleep in the Sun | |
When the Roses Speak I Pay Attention | |
Great Moth Comes from His Papery Cage | |
More Beautiful than the Honey Locust Tree Are the Words of the Lord | |
The Place I Want to Get Back To | |
Praying | |
2 | |
News of Percy Five | |
Doesnt Every Poet Write a Poem about Unrequited Love? | |
Letter to ___________ | |
The Poet Thinks about the Donkey | |
Swimming with Otter | |
Mozart for Example | |
Making the House Ready for the Lord | |
The Winter Wood Arrives | |
After Her Death | |
Percy Four | |
Cormorants | |
What I Said at Her Service | |
A Note Left on the Door | |
Those Days | |
A Pretty Song | |
First Days | |
The Eucharist | |
Six Recognitions of the Lord | |
The Beautiful Striped Sparrow | |
Gethsemane | |
The Fist | |
Logan International | |
The Poet Comments on Yet Another Approaching Spring | |
The Uses of Sorrow | |
Heavy | |
On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate | |
Percy Six | |
Percy Seven | |
In the Storm | |
The Chat | |
EPILOGUE | |
Thirst | |
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