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American primitive Poems

Mary Oliver

The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitive...

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Glennon shares that Mary Oliver's poetry feels like divinity to her, and she reads it to prime herself into a state of being before writing a letter from love.

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For me it's a it's poetry so like Walt Whitman does it for me Emily Dickinson does it for me Mary Oliver does it for me Rumi and Hafiz do it for me I feel like they they were directly channeling the d...

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Glennon shares that Mary Oliver's poetry feels like divinity to her, and she reads it to prime herself into a state of being before writing a letter from love.

"

For me it's a it's poetry so like Walt Whitman does it for me Emily Dickinson does it for me Mary Oliver does it for me Rumi and Hafiz do it for me I feel like they they were directly channeling the divine like they were mystics who were directly channeling the divine and they were generous enough to leave the door open behind them so you're almost drafting in on them so you prime yourself into that state of being by reading something that feels to you like it comes from that place

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