{"id":588,"date":"2009-07-07T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/the-poetry-and-land-of-mary-oliver.html"},"modified":"2009-07-07T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:00:49","slug":"the-poetry-and-land-of-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/the-poetry-and-land-of-mary-oliver.html","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry and Land of Mary Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Thumbnail<\/span>If you love Mary Oliver (she wrote the beloved poem “Wild Geese”<\/a> among many others), you will want to see this lovely piece<\/a> about her in the Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a travel article about the Provincetown, Mass landscape that the Pultizer Prize-winning poet has trod and loved and writen about for decades. There’s also a lovely slideshow <\/a>that goes with it–photos of the area, especially Blackwater Pond (one of her most famous poems is about it) scroll while she reads her work. <\/p>\n

Oliver declined to be interviewed for the article, saying she is private and prefers to let her poems speak for themselves. The article excerpts some of these words: <\/p>\n

From In Blackwater Woods: <\/p>\n

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

From a 1991 essay:<\/p>\n

 “When will you have a little pity for\/every soft thing\/that walks through the world,\/yourself included?”<\/p>\n

You can read the whole article here: http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/05\/travel\/05oliver.html?pagewanted=1&sq=mary%20oliver&st=cse&scp=1<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is the slideshow: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/07\/05\/travel\/20090705-mary-oliver-audio-ss\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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