false 42632 4 A new chapter in Mary Oliver's illustrious career, this collection takes us inside the poet's grief and her discovery of faith Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades. In three stunning long poems, Oliver explores the dimensions and tests the parameters of religious doctrine, asking of being good, for example, "To what purpose? / Hope of Heaven? Not that. But to enter / the other kingdom: grace, and imagination, / and the multiple sympathies: to be as a leaf, a rose,/ a dolphin." 42104 4 10 2006 Thirst: Poems total:393|5:209|4:118|3:49|2:14|1:3| 393 1695 540 74 2 2 false false Mon Dec 10 20:28:33 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 20:28:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 28 12:45:45 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 00:38:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 16 10:13:54 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 23 19:26:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 26 05:46:17 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 05:55:31 -0800 2007
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Cormorants

All afternoon the sea was a muddle of birds
black and spiky,
long-necked, slippery.

Down they went
into the waters for the poor
blunt-headed silver
they live on. for a little while.

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