I regret not seeing 79-year old Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver when she came to Atlanta last month to speak.
In the April issue of O, Maria Shriver interviews her.
Oliver celebrates the natural world in her poetry, preferring optimism over the darkness of such confessional poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
Call her a praise poet.
"I don't usually mess around with what makes me unhappy when I'm writng. I want to write poems that will comfort, maybe amuse, enliven other people. I don't mean that the world is all great and wonderful. But I'm careful to--I try to keep the emphasis on the good and the hopeful."
In the April issue of O, Maria Shriver interviews her.
Oliver celebrates the natural world in her poetry, preferring optimism over the darkness of such confessional poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
Call her a praise poet.
"I don't usually mess around with what makes me unhappy when I'm writng. I want to write poems that will comfort, maybe amuse, enliven other people. I don't mean that the world is all great and wonderful. But I'm careful to--I try to keep the emphasis on the good and the hopeful."
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