Books like Wild Geese

This is a wonderful book. With fresh sparse prose and unerring insight, Mary Oliver’s writing conveys the sort of connection with nature that Wordsworth writes about experiencing as a child – except with Oliver the feeling stays with her always. She writes with a haunting brilliance…The face of a moose is as sadAs the face of Jesus……………………….the sea Which was slashing along as usual, Shouting and hissing Toward the future………………………..the hummingbird comeslike a small green angel, to soakhis dark tonguein happiness –But not only does she write about nature – entwined with her wonderful observations of animals, birds and the countryside, are insights into the human condition – our experiences of life, death, joy and bitterness….. It’s all there.If you want to get a flavour of this woman’s marvellous work, here is a link to her reading three of her poems. (It really is a wonderful reading.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnaP7i...