Owls and Other Fantasies (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Oliver
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry and essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Death or dying, Birds, Old age or elderly people, Animals, Wildlife, Owls
Mary Oliver, winner of the 1992 National Book Award, the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, and the 1998 Lannon Literary Award for poetry, offers in her newest collection twenty-six poems and two essays. Owls and Other Fantasies is beautifully illustrated with line drawings of bird feathers. While the poems and essays take a variety of birds as their subjects, they are also about the great cycle of life. For Oliver, closer to the end of her life than its beginning, the contemplation of birds brings meaning, reconciliation, and redemption.
Fittingly, “Wild Geese,” Oliver’s...
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