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- Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live
- America’s Unofficial Poet Laureate: Mary Oliver
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Tag Archives: National Book Award
America’s Unofficial Poet Laureate: Mary Oliver
Judging by her phenomenal sales, Mary Oliver surely rates as America’s unofficial poet laureate, and yet the anomaly that she’s never held the office since its inception in 1937. I have to confess that I hadn’t heard of her, despite … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged MARY OLIVER, modern poetry, National Book Award, POET LAUREATE, Poetry, POETRY FOUNDATION, PULITZER PRIZE
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Peter Matthiessen: Homegoing
We lost a great writer, Peter Matthiessen, this past weekend. A co-founder of the renowned Paris Review and author of thirty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, his supreme subject was Nature and, sadly, Man’s pervasive impact upon it: Species appear, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, People, Reflections
Tagged authors, books, Buddhism, environment, National Book Award, nature, Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country, Snow Leopard
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My passion for reading
I’m always on the look out for a good read, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s fact or fiction. Biographies, memoirs, diaries, you name it. But science fiction, romance, adventure, I like these, too. And then there are the how-to … Continue reading
