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A review by veronicachp
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
As I always say at the start of these reviews, I am not a poetry person. Despite trying and trying, I do not like it, can't get into it, find reading it tedious and mostly unenjoyable. BUT I remain convinced that somewhere out there is a poet for me if I keep trying, and Mary Oliver has probably gotten the closest yet to being that poet. While I still probably (definitely) did not get the full impact of a lot of these poems and struggled to get through parts of the book, I really enjoyed some of it and this is the highest I've ever rated a poetry anthology upon reading. So to a person who actually likes poetry it's probably fantastic.