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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't picked up Mary Oliver in a while, do ;)  It's a slow down, but a good one.  <br/><br/>Consider:<br/>Listen, whatever it is you try<br/>to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you <br/>like the dream of your body, <br/><br/>its spirit<br/>longing to fly while the dead we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71947344">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mary Oliver has great attitude of ordering her poems in American Primitive. It starts with a creation story that does not try to explain things – rather it tells like it is, to acknowledge existence of self in immediate sensations of “ripped arms” and “happy tongue,” the silence growth of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10990801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3/3.5.<br/><br/>On one hand, she does what she does so well -- and how does she manage it? To do the same thing, over and over, but to do it in such a way that you either don't notice or can't begrudge her for it?<br/><br/>On the other hand, <em>because</em> she does what she does so well, I find that I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55545686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to say that I don't like poetry, but I love this. It's all about nature and the woods and the trees. I reread the poem &quot;Mushrooms&quot; all the time, it even came up in a dream I had recently.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good collection, but not what I'm in to. <br/><br/>American Primative is a nice collection of poetry that ultimately fell short for me, because of the quantity of imagist poems.  While the crafting is excellent the content of the poems lacks flare and the edgy topics.  It's a reasonable read and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13418053">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this collection of poems, but I found some of them to be very similar. Some of my favorites:<br/><br/>--August<br/>--An Old Whorehouse<br/>--Tecumseh<br/>--Skunk Cabbage]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book at least once every year. It is amazing poetry and Oliver is my favorite poet. I love the interwoven layers of nature and her awareness is outstanding.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My Ob-Gyn practitioner prescribed Mary Oliver to me a couple of years ago.  She was right!  I read her from time to time when I need a lift!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the poem University Hospital, Boston and keep it with you in your pocket or your memory if you are caring for a loved one who is ailing. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually not my favorite Mary Oliver collection (or even second favorite) but it gets 5 stars for being so freakin fantastic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favourite book of Oliver's poetry ... It strikes me as her most immediate and visceral.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best poets EVER!  Mary Oliver brings nature to life in a deep, dark, fascinating way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oliver's poetry is amazing, provocative, dynamic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobody's better than Mary Oliver.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 things of America — the wilderness that survives both within our bodies and outside — &quot;...the cords / of my body stretching / and singing in the / heaven of appetite.&quot; - Publisher comments.]]>
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