A review by gvenezia
The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver

5.0

A sonorous ode to what the world is: the leaf, the cloud, the stone, the river: perfect in themselves, existing apart from humanity—and yet so bound up in our notions of the self, beauty, value, and the meaning of life. Mary Oliver meditates on the mundane, sublime, and beastly in nature, describing and redescrbiing how the boundaries of artificial and natural are more blurry and shifting than simple semantics lets on. A beautiful work of poetry for both its small moments and the breadth of its world-spanning vision.