{"product_id":"swan-poems-and-prose-poems-9780807068991","title":"Swan: Poems and Prose Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Joy is not made to be a crumb,\" writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. \u003ci\u003eSwan\u003c\/i\u003e, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be \"made out of the dust of stars,\" we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. \u003ci\u003eSwan \u003c\/i\u003eis Oliver's tribute to \"the mortal way\" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been \"totally loyal.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003enoted, innumerable readers go to Oliver's poetry \"for solace, regeneration and inspiration.\" Few poets express the immense complexities of human experience as skillfully, or capture so memorably the smallest nuances. Speaking, for example, of stones, she writes, \"the little ones you can \/ hold in your hands, their heartbeats \/ so secret, so hidden it may take years \/ before, finally, you hear them.\" It is no wonder Oliver ranks, according to the \u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard, \u003c\/i\u003e \"among the finest poets the English language has ever produced.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 6.56w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807068991","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713665863817,"sku":"9780807068991","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_94f42bc7-2cb5-4dd8-b6e2-aa6be7e50cad.jpg?v=1719619219","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/swan-poems-and-prose-poems-9780807068991","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}