Two Poems from Dream Work
"Wild Geese"; "The Journey"
Poems
By: Mary Oliver
Date: 1986
Source: Oliver, Mary. "Wild Geese" and "The Journey." In Dream Work. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986, 14, 38.
About the Author: Mary Oliver (1935–) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended both Ohio State University (1955–56) and Vassar (1956–57). She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for the collection American Primitive, and was also awarded a National Book Award for Poetry in 1992 for New and Selected Poems. Oliver frequently teaches poetry workshops at colleges and universities. In 2003, she was the Catharine Osgood Foster Professor at Bennington College.
Introduction
Mary Oliver says that she never took interesting jobs so that she could concentrate on her writing. An interesting job, Oliver claims, distracts her thoughts and takes energy away...
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