AudioFile reviewer Leslie Fine and host Jo Reed discuss Kimberly Farr’s narration of this collection of Mary Oliver’s poems. Many of Oliver’s poems are about God or nature, and sometimes it’s difficult to find the line between them. Her world was full of many delights and, had she lived to hear them, Farr’s interpretations of her poems would have been among them. There is some melancholy in this collection—although not much—and Farr’s marvelous vocal talents bring that out as much as the great joy Oliver derived from being in the woods or at the seashore or anywhere there was wildness. 

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Published by Penguin Audio

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