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Thirst: Poems | Mary Oliver
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
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TheSpineView Lovely!🌞 5mo
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BarbaraJean
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I know what everyone wants
is a miracle.
This wasn‘t a miracle.
Unless, of course, kindness—
as now and again
a rare person has suggested—
is a miracle.
As surely it is.

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BarbaraJean
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Belief isn‘t always easy.
But this much I have learned—
if not enough else—
to live with my eyes open.

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BarbaraJean
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Here‘s my #BookReport for last week:
✅Finished Peter Nimble
✅Started a re-read of Thirst (LOVE Mary Oliver!)
🤷🏻‍♀️Didn‘t quite keep up with daily reading in Word by Word, but I‘m caught up & ready to start a new week!
✅Completed week 3‘s buddy read section of Tree Grows in Brooklyn
🚶🏻‍♀️I read another chapter of Wearing God, but need to pick up the pace
🏃🏻‍♀️I did some skimming through the middle of View from the Cheap Seats

Cinfhen Great use of emojis 🙌🏻❣️and looks like you had a solid week 😊 4y
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hwheaties
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A bit too much of the “God” stuff in here for me, but Oliver‘s poetry is still beautiful and amazing and I love it.

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hwheaties
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Next up for poetry

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#LiteraryLove Day 28: These are only some of my #FebruaryFavs. An assortment of horror, picturebooks, poetry. I am slowly going through all the e-books of Mary Oliver I can get my hands on from our library via Overdrive. I was especially taken by tagged book where I found myself sobbing uncontrollably in the middle of the night reading her words. She will be missed by the universe. Her words are such blessing, almost like a benediction, a prayer.

vkois88 ❤❤❤ 5y
HippieChickHomeschool I always say reading Mary Oliver is like going to church ❤️ 5y
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Carla
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Yay, me! I am on I♥️Radio. Quite an accomplishment for a little indie bookcast. They are picky.
Ep 48 is for Mary: “You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting...
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
...Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination...”
Mary Oliver

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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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I‘m sad to see the news of acclaimed poet Mary Oliver‘s death. So I pulled this one off my shelf for a read. These are the poems she wrote as she struggled with grief after her longtime partner‘s passing. 😰

#rip #maryoliver #grief #poetry

ClairesReads So sad! 5y
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LauraBeth 💔💔 5y
Christine ❤️💔❤️ 5y
kspenmoll Love this one. 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @kspenmoll There are so many appropriate ones for right now. ♥️ 5y
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BarbaraJean
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😭Just saw this on FB, posted by one of my college English professors. I love Mary Oliver‘s poetry—what a loss for the world of literature!

One of my reading goals for the year is to read one collection of poetry every month. I‘m a little behind—I‘d pulled Robert Frost off the shelf, but haven‘t started yet. I think I‘ll bump Frost to February and re-read Oliver‘s Thirst collection this month instead.

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#PoetryMatters #January2019 #Forever #Messenger #MaryOliver #Day2
“...telling them all, over and over, how it is that we all live Forever”.

Suet624 Mary Oliver is just the best. 5y
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Love this. I‘m having a hard time so far getting into any books this year. This is only the second one I‘ve completed!

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Libby1
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I forgot to share this on Saturday.

The garden centre we visited last Saturday had this sign beside the entrance.

How have I not read Mary Oliver before?

What a beautiful place and a beautiful poem.

Suet624 Lovely. Mary has a way of always giving me hope. 7y
LauraBeth 💕💕 7y
ValerieAndBooks 💖Mary Oliver ! 7y
Libby1 @Suet624 , @LauraBeth , @ValerieAndBooks - I haven't read her work yet. I certainly will. 💜 7y
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kyraleseberg
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Haven's finishing her Valentine cards and I'm sneaking in some Mary Oliver poems before I finish these Stranger Things candy cartons 📚💌

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BarbaraJean
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CathyC Any of Mary Oliver's books of poetry is a treasure to read and keep close. Love this one. 7y
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For #WomanCrushWednesday, Mary Oliver! Thirst is one of my favorite collections--I memorized a couple of poems from this collection and use them constantly in the hospital. Yay poetry and Mary Oliver!

Bibliogeekery I adore Mary Oliver! 8y
BookishFeminist Love Mary Oliver! I need to read more of her backlist, starting with this one! 8y
Hugoreads Oh how I love Mary Oliver. Her work has sustained me through some tough times as well as times of grace. Thanks for sharing this particular passage...speaks to my soul. 8y
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Had lunch with a friend who's going through some tough stuff and told her about this poem that's been a mantra for me in difficult times.

The Uses of Sorrow

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Love Mary Oliver! 8y
Makatma She is one of my favorites! 8y
Bibliogeekery 💓💓💓 8y
minkyb She is fabulous! 8y
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