![]() She writes as well about literary figures, particularly in moving terms about Walt Whitman who was a model to her as she began writing poetry. ![]() The first, and title essay ends with this striking aphorism that I will probably chew on the rest of 2020: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” She writes of trees, and wild flowers, connects them to her writing life, and to life itself. Perhaps that is the discipline of being a poet. What I discovered in these essays was a writer not unlike Annie Dillard in her reflections on nature, but one who could do just as much in far fewer words. The fact that I lived for nine years in Maple Heights makes her doubly interesting. The fact that she was an Ohio-born author makes her of interest to me. ![]() One of the facts that made her even more interesting to me was that she was born in Maple Heights, Ohio, a small suburb on the southeast side of Cleveland. ![]() ![]() One of my reading goals of 2020 is to read some of the work of Mary Oliver, who I only learned of upon her death in 2019. Summary: A collection of essays on nature and literary figures and how we might both lose and understand ourselves as we interact with them. ![]()
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