And the power that buys our freedom?
The power to inflict death in our name.
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Carolyn Oliver
Carolyn Oliver’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, The Greensboro Review, Booth, Gulf Stream, Frontier Poetry and elsewhere.
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Review: Mary Oliver’s poetic gifts
“Listen,” writes Mary Oliver, urging the reader to put aside questions and doubts as she describes terns wheeling over ocean waves, “maybe such devotion, in which one holds the world/ in the clasp of attention, isn’t the perfect prayer,/ but it must be close.” With Devotions, Oliver, who died on January 17 at age 83, […]
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Iphigenia Leaving Tauris
In the wind I lose the tumble of bone-white rocks down the hillside in summer