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title: "Dream Work Paperback – January 7, 1994"
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# Dream Work Paperback – January 7, 1994

**Brand:** mary oliver
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- **What is this?** Dream Work Paperback – January 7, 1994 by mary oliver
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Profound and Reflective
*by M***Y on June 23, 2024*

Dream Work by Mary Oliver is an accomplished collection that delves deep into the human spirit through the lens of nature. Each poem, like "Wild Geese," captures a mix of tranquility and introspection, exploring themes of personal growth, acceptance, and the fleeting nature of life. Oliver's vivid imagery and profound wisdom make this book a timeless treasure for anyone seeking solace and enlightenment in poetry.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful but unflinching poems about the work of self-exploration
*by E***K on November 14, 2016*

Many come to Dream Work for the first time carried on the wings of the poem “Wild Geese” whose most famous lines read something like a benediction: “You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.” And if this is a reader’s first exposure to Oliver, they will be met with some her of most representative pieces. Many of the forty-five poems, like “Morning Poem” use nature—beautifully and physically rediscovered through Oliver’s imagery—to describe hope and self-compassion (“And if your spirit / carries within it / the thorn / that is heavier than lead-- / if it’s all you can do / to keep on trudging- / there is still / somewhere deep within you / a beast shouting that the earth / is exactly what it wanted—“).Other poems explore darker themes, and use nature to cope with the transience of life (and the struggle to figure out what to do with it in the meantime). In the beginning of Part II, “One or Two Things” captures a life’s worth of anxiety about the passage of time, opening with “Don’t bother me. / I’ve just / been born.” and ending with the tranquil and perhaps a bit eerie stanza: “For years and years I struggled / just to love my life. And then / the butterfly / rose weightless, in the wind. / “Don’t love your life / too much,” it said, / and vanished / into the world.”The central tension of the collection might best be captured in the first poem of the book. “Dogfish” introduces the speaker’s main struggle stating, “I wanted / the past to go away, I wanted / to leave it, like another country; I wanted / my life to close, and open / like a hinge, like a wing….I wanted / to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, / whoever I was, I was / alive for a little while.” What carries through all of the pieces in Dream Works is an answering vision of self-exploration and meaning making through interaction with nature profoundly but simply rendered.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by M***Y on February 13, 2017*

I really enjoy Mary Oliver's poetry! Dream Work is thought provoking; love her Swan collection better.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Dream Work
- Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- American Primitive

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