{"product_id":"winter-hours-prose-prose-poems-and-poems-paperback","title":"Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read.\" -Susan Salter Reynolds, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes \u003cem\u003eWinter Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at an unexpected whistling she hears, of the \"thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else.\" She talks of her own poems and of some of her favorite poets: Poe, writing of \"our inescapable destiny,\" Frost and his ability to convey at once that \"everything is all right, and everything is not all right,\" the \"unmistakably joyful\" Hopkins, and Whitman, seeking through his poetry \"the replication of a miracle.\" And Oliver offers us a glimpse as well of her \"private and natural self--something that must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to know me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.34 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762091884832,"sku":"9780395850879","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/58d5af86d38421cf9e7bb96e1d9f2915.webp?v=1780217050","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/winter-hours-prose-prose-poems-and-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}