V2R22: Mary Oliver
Readathon May 2024: Day 8
Dear Reader,
Today, we urge you to treat yourself to Mary Oliver’s prose and poetry.
Start with this essay from Upstream, interspersed with Maria Popova’s thoughts.
“The second world — the world of literature — offered me, besides the pleasures of form, the sustentation of empathy (the first step of what Keats called negative capability) and I ran for it. I relaxed in it. I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned: that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
Bonus links:
Enjoy a sampling of her poems from Poetry Magazine’s archives.
Please tune in to her conversation with Krista Tippett from 2015.
Experience Mary Oliver reading her poetry at The 92nd Street Y, New York in 2012.
Hope these rabbit holes make your day. A big shoutout to
for enhancing our social media feeds with a sprinkling of Mary Oliver from time to time. More on her writing tomorrow, 6:42 AM IST.Happy Reading :) ~ N&N
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