Breakage
MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver stood on the precipice of nature. In the minutiae of the world around her, she saw herself. Her poems are quiet and contemplative, often regarding the small and the overlooked. She deals in the motionless ponds, the barn mouse, the swaying trees and the thin horizon where the sea meets the sky. It is on this horizon where her work lives, in the space between the human and the animal. She understood the primality of the world around her but believed in a greater power that existed alongside it. Oliver was a visionary, breathing new life and mystery into the familiar with her words. She never stopped writing until her death in 2019 at the age of 83.