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Mary Oliver: Poet of Awe
Mary Oliver was in a class by herself. Distinguished with a Pulitzer
Prize and a National Book Award, she was viewed with suspicion by
literary critics for her status as a kind of rock star poet. For those
of us who read her like a daily liturgy, her name is synonymous with
other such essential words: mystery, wild, awe, terror, devotion,
gratitude, grace. All of them come alive in her simple poems, that seem
to rise from the crossroad of nature and spirituality, brimming with
good questions. Fabiana Fondevila begins her process of saying goodbye
in this essay full of beautiful snippets from the poet who helped so
many of us find our way home to devotion and prayer through wonder and
awe.
https://gratefulness.org/blog/the-poet-of-awe/
