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House of Light by Mary Oliver (1992, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBeacon Press
ISBN-10080706811X
ISBN-139780807068113
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038674684
Product Key Features
Book TitleHouse of Light
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSpirituality, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Nature, American / General
Publication Year1992
FeaturesReprint
GenreReligion, Poetry
AuthorMary Oliver
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-046059
ReviewsOliver's poems are thoroughly convincing--as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring. -The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing--as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring."-The New York Times Book Review
Table Of ContentSome Questions You Might Ask Moccasin Flowers The Buddha's Last Instruction Spring Singapore The Hermit Crab Lilies Wings The Swan The Kingfisher Indonesia "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" Turtle The Deer The Loon on Oak-Head Pond What Is It? Writing Poems Some Herons Five A.M. in the Pinewoods Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard The Gift Pipefish The Kookaburras The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water Death at a Great Distance The Notebook Praise Looking for Snakes Fish Bones The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond Everything Nature Snake The Ponds The Summer Day Serengeti The Terns Roses, Late Summer Herons in Winter in the Frozen Marsh Looking at a Book of van Gogh's Paintings, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Foxes in Winter How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea Crows Maybe Finches White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThis collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers., Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book AwardThis collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity., This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
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- 28 Oct, 2022
Very nice book. I am enjoying it.
Nice product at a nice price. Thank you!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Mar, 2020
Great buy
Like new condition and mailed to protect it. Of course the content is wonderful.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Nov, 2019
Arrived in good shape
Good value for used bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Jan, 2019
Amazing book!
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