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House of Light
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
--Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume)
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.
Book Details
- Publisher: Beacon Press
- Publish Date: Apr 8th, 1992
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.52in - 5.46in - 0.32in - 0.29lb
- EAN: 9780807068113
- Categories: • American - General• General• Women Authors
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American Book Award Author. Independence,TheLastQueen,ForestOfEnchantments,PalaceOfIllusions, SisterOfMyHeart.Speaker.UH Professor.FB.Insta @divakarunichitra
Poetry that I recommend: House of Light by Mary Oliver. Also any books by Tagore, Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel. https://t.co/msSwBUkdCx
BUILDING BROWNVILLE (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) New work: Plainsongs, @SierraNVReview, & @pidgeonholes. He/Him | MFA candidate at @bgsu
Have a new blog post up with @MidAm_Review today. I talk about what I’m reading. Here’s some words over NEBRASKA by Kwame Dawes (@kwamedawes), HOUSE OF LIGHT by Mary Oliver, and SPLITTING AN ORDER by Ted Kooser: https://t.co/HK89abH3xa
Husband, Quaker, theologian, lecturer, writer, Hedge Druid, "Aristotelian Liberal". Devotee of Terry Pratchett, and E.M. Forster, and Mavis Clare.
“I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields.... Tell me, what else should I have done?” (Mary Oliver, House of Light) ♥️ https://t.co/oRQEu6TQIe
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American Book Award Author. Independence,TheLastQueen,ForestOfEnchantments,PalaceOfIllusions, SisterOfMyHeart.Speaker.UH Professor.FB.Insta @divakarunichitra
Poetry that I recommend: House of Light by Mary Oliver. Also any books by Tagore, Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel. https://t.co/msSwBUkdCx
BUILDING BROWNVILLE (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) New work: Plainsongs, @SierraNVReview, & @pidgeonholes. He/Him | MFA candidate at @bgsu
Have a new blog post up with @MidAm_Review today. I talk about what I’m reading. Here’s some words over NEBRASKA by Kwame Dawes (@kwamedawes), HOUSE OF LIGHT by Mary Oliver, and SPLITTING AN ORDER by Ted Kooser: https://t.co/HK89abH3xa