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A review by maeverose
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Did not finish book. Stopped at 44%.
DNFed @ 44%
Read this for a ‘reading my favorite booktuber’s favorite books of 2023’ challenge (this one being from allisonspaiges’ video), and liked a good amount of the poems but eventually lost interest. I may end up reading a few more but either way I’m marking as a dnf because I won’t be reading every poem.
My favorite poems:
•I don’t want to be demure or respectable (blue horses - 2014)
•on meditating, sort of (blue horses - 2014)
•lonliness (blue horses - 2014)
•do stones feel? (Blue horses - 2014)
•the storm (dog songs - 2013)
•varanasi (a thousand mornings - 2012)
•we shake with joy (evidence - 2009)
•the orchard (red bird - 2008)
•sometimes (red bird - 2008)
•lead (new and selected poems: vol 2 - 2005)
•lingering in happiness (why I wake early - 2004)
•flare (the leaf and the cloud - 2000)
•wild geese (dream work - 1986)
Read this for a ‘reading my favorite booktuber’s favorite books of 2023’ challenge (this one being from allisonspaiges’ video), and liked a good amount of the poems but eventually lost interest. I may end up reading a few more but either way I’m marking as a dnf because I won’t be reading every poem.
My favorite poems:
•I don’t want to be demure or respectable (blue horses - 2014)
•on meditating, sort of (blue horses - 2014)
•lonliness (blue horses - 2014)
•do stones feel? (Blue horses - 2014)
•the storm (dog songs - 2013)
•varanasi (a thousand mornings - 2012)
•we shake with joy (evidence - 2009)
•the orchard (red bird - 2008)
•sometimes (red bird - 2008)
•lead (new and selected poems: vol 2 - 2005)
•lingering in happiness (why I wake early - 2004)
•flare (the leaf and the cloud - 2000)
•wild geese (dream work - 1986)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Violence