[New-Poetry] 'Our World' by Mary Oliver

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http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-reynolds6jan06,0,5486849.story?coll=la-books-headlines

'Our World' by Mary Oliver

The photographs of the late Molly Malone Cook, with a text by her partner, poet Mary Oliver.
By Susan Salter Reynolds 
January 6, 2008 
Our World

Mary Oliver, photographs by Molly Malone Cook

Beacon Press: 88 pp. $24.95


Used to be, if you telephoned the poet Mary Oliver, her partner Molly Cook would invariably answer. She'd ask you to hold on a moment, feign footsteps and return to the phone as Oliver, making no pretense at a different voice (editors across the country routinely played along). Cook was, for many years, Oliver's agent. Oliver, everyone understood, was a bit of a recluse. She needed nature and solitude to create her poems. "Writers must . . . take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems," she wrote in "A Poetry Handbook." Cook, who died in 2005 of lung cancer, at 80, was the sociable one.


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