One question closes the most quoted poem in American life. Mary Oliver on Your One Wild Life sits with the final lines of The Summer Day, tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life, tracing them from a grasshopper in the grass into one honest look at how a day gets spent.
Inside: who Oliver was and why she kept walking the same Provincetown woods for forty years; what the poem refuses to tell you; why wild and precious pull in opposite directions; and a closing practice, one hour outside with no errand but noticing. About seven minutes, a slow evening with a poet who asked everything and ordered nothing.
CHAPTERS
0:04 The Grasshopper in the Grass
1:12 The Woman Who Walked and Noticed
2:12 A Question, Not an Answer
3:11 Wild and Precious
4:37 A Practice for One Day
5:49 Answer With Your Life
7:05 Keep One Line Close
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