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Thirst: Poems
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bookshelves: 2016, poetry, writing-inspiration, reviewed, 2018, favorites
Sep 11, 2016
bookshelves: 2016, poetry, writing-inspiration, reviewed, 2018, favorites
Read 2 times. Last read January 25, 2018.
My work is loving the world. [...]
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
I really love this collection.
Thirst is a hopeful, contemplative, and inspiring series of poems about the dance between grief and graciousness. Mary Oliver blends her experiences with nature, loss, prayer, and God into a wonderful echo of a spiritual search, tracing her footsteps along the way in words, finding pain, grace, and beauty, and inviting the reader to experience some of that journey. There is a distinct spiritual voice in each of her poems, some of them reflecting on the gift of existence itself, others seeing hardship for what it is, and the potential it has for being an unrecognized blessing.
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
This book is dedicated to her long-time partner, who passed in 2005, and it reads as a soulful and sanguine lament. Highly recommended to those who want a small collection to savor, meditate on, and to pull out on Autumn walks for companionship in grief, and in wonder.
Who knows what will finally happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
I really love this collection.
Thirst is a hopeful, contemplative, and inspiring series of poems about the dance between grief and graciousness. Mary Oliver blends her experiences with nature, loss, prayer, and God into a wonderful echo of a spiritual search, tracing her footsteps along the way in words, finding pain, grace, and beauty, and inviting the reader to experience some of that journey. There is a distinct spiritual voice in each of her poems, some of them reflecting on the gift of existence itself, others seeing hardship for what it is, and the potential it has for being an unrecognized blessing.
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
This book is dedicated to her long-time partner, who passed in 2005, and it reads as a soulful and sanguine lament. Highly recommended to those who want a small collection to savor, meditate on, and to pull out on Autumn walks for companionship in grief, and in wonder.
Who knows what will finally happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
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Quotes Eric Liked
“The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst
“Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.”
― Thirst
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.”
― Thirst
Reading Progress
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Sep 13, 2016 01:11AM
Dear Eric, what a beautifully written review! "The dance between grief and graciousness" and "a soulful and sanguine lament" so aptly sum up this collection of poems. I really loved it too.
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Laysee wrote: "Dear Eric, what a beautifully written review! "The dance between grief and graciousness" and "a soulful and sanguine lament" so aptly sum up this collection of poems. I really loved it too."Thanks Laysee! I'm glad you enjoy it too, it really is a powerful collection. I can certainly see myself returning to it periodically.
Eric wrote: "Laysee wrote: "Dear Eric, what a beautifully written review! "The dance between grief and graciousness" and "a soulful and sanguine lament" so aptly sum up this collection of poems. I really loved ..."Indeed! Me too :)
