She tutors us in the art of long-looking. She does not take a conventional approach to death.
It is a particularly impactful poem in which Oliver engages with the confusing and fearful subject of death. “Do you cherish your humble and silky life?” She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be “an invitation / to happiness, / and that happiness, / when it’s done right, / is a kind of holiness, / palpable and redemptive.” She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world “as if for the second time/the way it really is.” Oliver’s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world. As regular readers of our book reviews already know, we cant get enough of the exquisite poetry of Mary Oliver. Poems by Mary Oliver, 2004, Beacon Press edition, in English. When Death Comes is one of Mary Oliver’s most remarkable poems originally published in New and Selected Poems (1992). In “The Summer Day,” she asks, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” “Do you love this world?” she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Mary Oliver’s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet’s first eight books. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country.
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award.
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