A thousand mornings poems

In this collection of poems the author returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, she shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of...

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Main Author: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • I go down to the shore
  • I happened to be standing
  • Foolishness? No, it's not
  • The gardener
  • After I fall down the stairs at the golden temple
  • If I were
  • Good-bye, Fox
  • Poem of the one world
  • And Bob Dylan too
  • Three things to remember
  • Hurricane
  • Today
  • The first time Percy came back
  • Lines written in the days of growing darkness
  • Blake dying
  • The mockingbird
  • The moth, the mountains, the rivers
  • A thousand mornings
  • An old story
  • Hum, hum
  • I have decided
  • Was it necessary to do it?
  • Green, green is my sister's house
  • The instant
  • The way of the world
  • Extending the airport runway
  • Tides
  • Out of the stump rot, something
  • In our woods, sometimes a rare music
  • The morning paper
  • The poet compares human nature to the ocean from which we came
  • On traveling to beautiful places
  • The man who has many answers
  • Life story
  • "For I will consider my dog Percy"
  • Varanasi.