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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Thirst

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“From the complications of loving you / I think there is no end or return. / No answer, no coming out of it. / “Therefore I have given precedence / to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods / that hold you in the center of my world.”

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