God of Dirt

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. In this study, the author shows the poet to have keen eyes and ears for reading the book of nature. The correspondence between her poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work. Here there is a god, but one who at first seems unrecognizable, at least to Judeo-Christian religious tradition. We know of the God of heaven, and even the God of heaven and Earth, but a god of dirt? Her reading of the Other Book of God invites us into nature's temple where we may come into the presence of the holy and from which we may leave rejuvenated and blessed. This book is an important study of a contemporary poet whose work is as likely to be read by a preacher in a pulpit as by an activist at an environmental rally, and will help us experience a new vision of the beauty of our world.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Cowley Publications

Editions

1

Pages

77

ISBN

9781561012619

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