House of Light

"""Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, a ""genuine, moving, and implausible"" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ""Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?"" Mary Oliver asks us in one of her most celebrated poems, ""The Summer Day."" House of Light, a collection of forty-six poems originally published in 1992, explores the themes of ""how to love this world"" and to be ""in touch with something real."" Meditative and soulful, these poems continue in Oliver's lyrical and embodied examination of the natural world. Attuned to the sprawling and teeming life abound, Oliver's words light up the page with the worldly splendors that surround us, even during our darkest moments""-- " ...