Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

<p>“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. <i>Swan,</i> 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. <i>Swan </i>is 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.”<br></p>