Reviews for Evidence

The average rating for Evidence based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-07 00:00:00 Lyle Allan Years ago I asked a student in an undergraduate poetry class if she liked Mary Oliver's work. "She the lady who write about bears and otters and her dog?" my asked. "Her," I said. "Nah. Don't really like her," she replied. This is possible? I asked myself. It is possible. How? I wondered. Don't know. More recently a friend said of Mary Oliver "you love her or you hate her." How? I wondered. I have just read Evidence, and I have an answer. It's not possible. Oliver is honest, real, tangible. She is taking you for a walk with her in the woods, along the shore, out back at dusk. Be with her in that natural world where everything is significant and full of grace because it goes about the profoundly mysterious business of being what it is without question. It's a lost art for us in our noisy, cut off, indvidual, and ridiculously complicated worlds. I can't go near her without quoting her. There is nothing else to say. Take this from "Mysteries, Yes," in her 19th book Evidence: Let me keep my stance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, And bow their heads. Life is beautiful. And, as my friend says, Mary Oliver makes it look easy.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-24 00:00:00 Travis Wilson "Keep room in your heart for the unimaginable."