Mary Oliver

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award

House of Light

Erin Darlyn

Rating: 4 stars of 5

Mary Oliver is one of my very favorite poets. Her work is beautiful and I love the way she paints pictures of the natural world with words. Reading her poetry always leaves me in a state of content reflection. 

House of Light is a collection of poems largely centered around the theme of animals, though other elements of nature are represented as well. This volume includes her poem, “The Summer Day,” which features perhaps her most famous line of poetry: 

 “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
 with your one wild and precious life?”

I have read other Mary Oliver collections that I loved more than this one (hence the four stars rather than five), but I did thoroughly enjoy reading it and would recommend it to other readers.

Hyshe Thaufeeg

Still, what I want in my life 
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing— that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems deals with nature, dreams, questions, the seasons, travel, birds, writing, and art

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House of Light

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