Half Wild: Poems

by Mary Rose O'Reilley

Book Overview

Winner of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets " O'Reilley's is] a style that celebrates . . . that mystery we call the soul. That part of us that is of another world, come perhaps to instruct us in this one" -Mary Oliver, from her judge's citation Half Wild is spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Though it reflects on the paradoxes of our violent times, Mary Rose O'Reilley's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131628
• ISBN13: 9780807131626
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Half Wild?--Mary O'Reilley shows us how to remember

With the economy of a haiku and a magnanimity only the bravest can approach, Mary O'Reilley has thrown a rope ladder all the way down to the nethermost part of us that for so long we tried to pretend wasn't there. This gorgeous, prize-winning, indispensible collection features spare but generous trips into the natural and human world that offer means for our battered, humiliated spirit to catch a toe hold.