Book review: A Thousand Mornings
The Penguin Press, New York, 2012
82 pages
Mary Oliver does it
again with A Thousand Mornings, a
short collection of poetry that offers her signature realism and wholesome,
literal evocation of her tasteful and spectacularly insightful reactions to the
world around her, and around us.
The reader is never
in doubt about what she’s saying—obscurity is not her thing, and disjointed
word play and annoying sentence fragments are not her thing. I take instruction
from Mary Oliver every time I read her work.
There is calm, quiet
joy in her words. She invites the reader to respect stillness. Here’s an
excerpt from “Today”
“…But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.
Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.”
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2015 All rights reserved.
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