Description
This number of poems by Mary Oliver once once more invitations the reader to step around the threshold of peculiar life into a global of natural and religious luminosity.
Tell me, what is it you intend to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day” (one of the vital poems on this volume)
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award