{"product_id":"selected-poems-1965-2005","title":"Mary Oliver: Selected Poems: 1965-2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eA luminous tour through the poems of one of nature's most brilliant and devoted observers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't know exactly what a prayer is.\u003cbr\u003eI do know how to pay attention, how to fall down\u003cbr\u003einto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,\u003cbr\u003ehow to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is what I have been doing all day.\u003cbr\u003eTell me, what else should I have done?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew modern poets are as beloved or as quoted as Mary Oliver. Spanning the major decades of her long career, this collection showcases Oliver's remarkable lyrical powers and her reverential attention to the natural world. Her poetry sees life everywhere and asks what to do with it -- how can we find our place among such beauty, such pain?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopulated by wading birds, early snowfalls, and swaying cornfields, her reflections are the record of a life spent walking alone in the wild. These timeless poems meet and touch their reader in any season of life, brightened by Oliver's gift for amazement, shadowed by her constant awareness of harshness and death. Her words teach us to live with our eyes open wider.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59567925461326,"sku":"9780241810187","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/6775\/7390\/files\/9780241810187.jpg?v=1777885782","url":"https:\/\/intothewest.co.uk\/products\/selected-poems-1965-2005","provider":"Into the West Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}