Sep 3, 2020
#Advertising Space, #angels, #comfort, #despair, #Elvis, #Hughes, #inspiration, #lyricist, #lyrics, #Mary Oliver, #millennium, #nature, #Oliver, #opposites, #poem, #poetry, #Robbie Williams, #Roe-deer, #Ted Hughes, #the creative process, #vision, #Wild Geese, #writing
by Lucy Crispin
It’s very often time for Mary Oliver, I find, though I know those who do not agree. For those readers, best pass by. Today I wanted to read ‘Wild Geese‘, so I am. I know most people have already read it. I know that (like other Oliver texts) it’s been plundered for Pinterest posts and self-help-seminar titles and many, many Inspirational Items (posters, mugs, t-shirts, who knows what). Still, its beauty and wisdom persist—just as the Mona Lisa survives being a jigsaw. So: enjoy ‘Wild Geese’ all over again (with the plus of hearing Oliver read it).
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