Tabs Open #24: I Don't Know Exactly What A Prayer Is
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Yesterday would have been Mary Oliver’s 84th birthday, the first since her passing. I got into her poetry in 2015, the same year I got into a lot of things—blogging, hiking, Moby-Dick, email newsletters—that have since become very important to me. Perhaps this is in part why I feel such an attachment to her work, because it came to me at such a transformative time. But frankly it’s just breathtakingly good, the lot of it, and it doesn’t take any special evocative memory of the time I first read it to appreciate that.
Tabs Open #24: I Don't Know Exactly What A Prayer Is
Tabs Open #24: I Don't Know Exactly What A…
Tabs Open #24: I Don't Know Exactly What A Prayer Is
Yesterday would have been Mary Oliver’s 84th birthday, the first since her passing. I got into her poetry in 2015, the same year I got into a lot of things—blogging, hiking, Moby-Dick, email newsletters—that have since become very important to me. Perhaps this is in part why I feel such an attachment to her work, because it came to me at such a transformative time. But frankly it’s just breathtakingly good, the lot of it, and it doesn’t take any special evocative memory of the time I first read it to appreciate that.