Dream Work: Poems

✍ Scribed by Oliver, Mary

• Book ID: 108217476
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802192417

✦ Synopsis

Dream Work , a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chrono­logically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive , which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness--so steadfast and radiant in _American Primitive --_continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit--to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the fail­ures of human relationships.
Whether by way of inheritance--as in her poem about the Holocaust--or through a painful glimpse into the present--as in "Acid," a poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia--the events and tendencies of history take on a new importance here. More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind...