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| Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Harvest Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $11.20
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 10564
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0156724006
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.1
EAN: 9780156724005
Publication Date: August 15, 1994
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great for the experienced and uninitiated April 19, 2002
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
What Oliver manages to do is speak to both the experienced and just-initiated poets. While I've been writing poetry since grade school, I wouldn't truly consider my poet as before reading this book, the most I could tell you about a sonnet was that it rhymed and the most about a haiku is that you had to write it in a certain amount of syllables. Oliver's book is quite an inspiration to get the creative juices following and is quite a manual on the process. Don't get me wrong, Oliver takes care of explaining the technical aspect of the poet's craft, but her book was more of a 'creative matchbox' than a classbook.
Simply the best short book for writers of poetry January 29, 1997
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Mary Oliver chose to avoid teaching so she could concentrate on her poetry. Too bad for students. Here, however, she gives students and accomplished poets alike a sensible and sensitive handbook that conveys not only the craft of poetry but its power, its mystery, and its magic. Readers who say they don't like poetry should give Oliver a chance to change their minds and hearts
I don't even like poetry! I write stories. April 2, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'll be the first to admit that my poetry reeks in a very teen-aged angst-heavy metal lyric-mushy kind of way. I thought that maybe I could find a way to string words together without using all that pesky grammar so I picked this one up at random. My story writing drastically improved. My poetry, well, let's just say that even Douglas Adams's Vogons would be mortally offended.What do poets know that the average storyteller doesn't? Words have sound. Imagine that. They have a feel that goes beyond connotation. There is a rhythm. And a sort of Dr. Suessian alilteration is available for 9.95 call within the next 10 minutes and shipping is free! Ms. Oliver would be hard pressed to find anything redeeming in my poetry. She'd probably wonder if I even read her book or if I pulled the ol' never touched the intern routine. I did-- not the intern, the book! I even learned that "dipthong" is not a dirty word. Darn it.
An Indispensable Guide March 9, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Say what you will about her poetry, Mary Oliver clearly understands the technical aspects of the craft and in this small tome she conveys them brilliantly. With a clear voice and plenty of examples drawn from the masters of poetry, Oliver is able to bring great insights to the beginner or amateur poetry writer.
It may be going just a bit far to say that Oliver's book is to poetry what Strunk & White's is to prose, but for the non-expert it feels awful close.
The poet's craft and art July 14, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can be said a book about poetry by the world's greatest living poetess? Besides learning about poetry we come to appreciate how much tradition, thought, work, rewriting goes into Mary Oliver's sublime poetry. Imagine if Shakespeare or Milton were to write a book on how poems are written and created?
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