Thirst: Poems
by Mary Oliver
List Price:
Our Price: $7.95
You Save: $6.05 (43%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Mary OliverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-03
ISBN: 0807068977
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Reviews of Thirst: Poems
Book Review: Poor Formatting of Kindle Version
Summary: 1 Stars
I enjoy Mary Oliver's poetry, so this review only concerns the Kindle version as of June 26, 2009. The poetry seems to be presented as a series of pictures rather than text. This creates a variety of problems. Highlighting doesn't work. Excerpting doesn't work. If you try to select text with the cursor, you just get the magnifying glass icon which will enlarge the paragraph to fill the page. Font size can be changed, but it is inconsistent. A paragraph on one page will be one font size and the next page will be another font size. I haven't tried text to speech, but it could be broken too. Strangely, searching does work. Basically, the formatting of this book negates many of the advantages of e-books.
Summary of Thirst: Poems
Now in paperback: the national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet"To read Thirst, Mary Oliver's most recent book of poems, is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive." -Angela O'Donnell, America Magazine
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 first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
"Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing."
-Alicia Ostriker, The Nation
"It has always seemed, across her [many] books of poetry, . . . that Mary Oliver might leave us at any minute. Even a 1984 Pulitzer Prize couldn't pin her to the ground. She'd change quietly into a heron or a bear and fly or walk on forever."
-Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"'My work is loving the world,' Oliver tells us..She has always done that work.in poems of considerable beauty. Now she rises, not above the world, but through it."
-Jay Parini, The Guardian, 10/6/2007
"Mary Oliver is, to my mind, one of the most gifted American poets working in English today. In her hands, the language acquires a lucidity approaching translucence; the accuracy of her vision and the precision of her voice are unique in their refreshing simplicity. Perhaps most singular is the tendency of her poems to be at once powerful and appealing; an affection for the natural world and a sympathy toward the reader abide."
-Katherine Hollander, Pleiades, Fall 2007
"To read Thirst is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive. This is not surprising, as it is the effect [Oliver's] best work has produced in readers for the past 43 years."
-Angela O'Donnell, America magazine
"'My work is loving the world.' That first line of 'Messenger,' the first poem in Mary Oliver's new collection Thirst (Beacon Press), names what she does better than any other poet writing today. Just as Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, which had a similar 'occasion,' was arguably her best work ever, so is Thirst Oliver's."
-Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter, 1/11/07
Oliver, Mary Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Contemporary poetry
Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)by Allen Ginsberg
City Lights Publishers; Published: 2001-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.93
Price in other shops:
Why I Wake Early: New Poemsby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2005-04-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)by Robert Frost
Dover Publications; Published: 1993-04-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.25
Price in other shops:
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthologyby David Hinton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2008-10-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $29.70
Price in other shops:
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeatsby William Butler Yeats
Scribner; Published: 1996-09-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.44
Price in other shops:
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992by Jack Gilbert
Knopf; Published: 1996-02-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
The Dance Most of All: Poemsby Jack Gilbert
Knopf; Published: 2009-04-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.23
Price in other shops:
Refusing Heavenby Jack Gilbert
Knopf; Published: 2007-03-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.87
Price in other shops:
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethkeby Theodore Roethke
Anchor; Published: 1975-01-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.80
Price in other shops:
Ballistics: Poemsby Billy Collins
Random House; Published: 2008-09-09; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.54
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
House of Lightby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 1992-04-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.18
Price in other shops:
A Poetry Handbookby Mary Oliver
Harvest Books; Published: 1994-08-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.97
Price in other shops:
Evidence: Poemsby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2009-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.76
Price in other shops:
Our Worldby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2007-10-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.93
Price in other shops:
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessingsby John O'Donohue
Doubleday Religion; Published: 2008-03-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops:
At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary OliverBeacon Press; Published: 2006-04-15; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $11.48
Price in other shops:
New and Selected Poems: Volume Oneby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2005-11-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.39
Price in other shops:
New and Selected Poems, Volume Twoby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2007-04-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Red Birdby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2009-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.04
Price in other shops:
Why I Wake Early: New Poemsby Mary Oliver
Beacon Press; Published: 2005-04-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops: