Dream Work

by Mary Oliver

Book Overview

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit to accepting the truth about one s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871130696
• ISBN13: 9780871130693
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Not in “Good” condition. Not by any means It’s just OK. Cover beat up and every page is bent and/or

Mary Oliver’s poetry is always inspiring and comforting.

These poems are luminous and exquisite....

_Dream Work_ is the first Mary Oliver book that I found, way back in 1989 while ill with pneumonia. "The Journey", possibly Mary's most popular poem, leapt out at me and quite literally opened my mind to a deeper commitment to self-care. That poem was Good Medicine!! ... "Wild Geese" has been another balm; who among us couldn't feel more tender towards ourselves when we read these lines, "You do not have to be good./You do not have to walk on your knees/for a hunded miles through the desert, repenting./You only have to let the soft animal of your body/love what it loves."?

Excellent insight for people who've been in therapy

For those of us who have endured emotional illness, Mary Oliver really communicates the emotions and the hope. The first half of the book must have surely come from her own such experience. The second half of the book was much weaker in my opinion. She is definitely my all-time favorite poet. If I had to pick a favorite in the book it would be "Wild Geese" or "The Journey"