Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Unpretentious, gentle, kind, wise,humble, radiant, open, understated,hopeful, joyful, attentive, inviting, loving,lyrical,curious,holy, shimmering with deep faith in the goodness of the world.

Mary Oliver was a great poet and her prose also excellent. Grounded in nature but with a wealth of other interests.

The breadth and depth of these selections provide a generous feast for eyes and ears eager for a full serving of the writer and observer of the world, both human and non, but mostly non.

As always reading anything by Mary Oliver makes me want to dance in the sunshine and run through the rain laughing. Her essays and poems bring to life the sweetness and rejuvenation that only nature can give to the soul.

When Mary Oliver's books are on my shelf, I am content. Thanks to a good observer, I am carried along for each walk.

It's Mary Oliver.... she never let's me down. Her writing grabs me before her first sentence has reached it's period. I could only hope for my writing to be so good...so inviting. I love living in Mary-land... always. Her images are so very clear. She invites all out senses to be tickled without knowing she's doing that... she's so natural and unforced in her approach... it's like being inside her head looking out through her eyes... only her eyes have a voice... LOVE HER!

Classic Mary OliverMary Oliver weaves her literary magic in this book of both pros and poetry. After you read it, you feel more calm, and more spiritual.

Do you feel alienated and not know why? This book is an antidote to that. Read it slowly, savor the melded nuances of the rhythm of a profoundly gifted soul. If you allow it, it could change you permanently. There is BMO and PMO: before Mary Oliver and post Mary Oliver.

Mary, profound, breathtaking and unique as always.

As always Mary Oliver is wonderful, through her words I am able to return to simpler much more innocent world of my own youth and feel the spring sun warming the world of the little creek in my back yard on the farm.

Mary Oliver, insightful and wise as always.

A versatile and enlightening collection of essays on her view of life and what made her love to write poetry about nature.

such a command of words and thoughts