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"What great organization Mary Oliver is!" the L A Times has said. And never much more than in this participating and remarkable collecting of nine documents, along with a short choice of fresh writing poems and poems. (One of many essays hasbeen selected as on the list of best of the entire year by The Most Effective American Essays 1998, another by The Anchor Essay Annual.) With all the accuracy and elegance which have won her millions of fans, Oliver discussions below of turtle eggs and house-building, of her shock at the unexpected effective trip of swans, of the "thousand strong links between all of us and anything else." She speaks of her own verses and of a number of her favourite poets: Poe, publishing of "our unescapable future," Frost and his capability to express at the same time that "everything is all right, and everything isn't all right," the "unmistakably pleased" Hopkins, and Whitman, seeking through his composition "the duplication of the wonder." And Oliver provides us a peek too of her "organic and personal home -- something which should as time goes on be studied into account by any who'd claim to understand me."