American primitive : poems /
by Mary Oliver.
- 88 pages ; 20 cm.
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer prize for poetry 'An Atlantic Monthly Press book.'
August -- Mushrooms -- The kitten -- Lightning -- In the pinewoods, crows and owl -- Moles -- The lost children -- The bobcat -- Fall song -- Egrets -- Clapp's pond -- Tasting the wild grapes -- John Chapman -- First snow -- Ghosts -- Cold poem -- A poem for the blue heron -- Flying -- Postcard from flamingo -- Vultures -- An old whorehouse -- Rain in Ohio -- Web -- University Hospital, Boston -- Skunk cabbage -- Spring -- Morning at great pond -- The snakes -- Blossom -- Something -- May -- White night -- The fish -- Honey at the table -- Crossing the swamp -- Humpbacks -- A meeting -- Little sister pond -- The roses -- Blackberries -- The sea -- Happiness -- Music -- Climbing the Chagrin River -- Tecumseh -- Bluefish -- The honey tree -- In blackwater woods -- The plum trees -- The gardens.
50 lyrical poems by the author express renewal of humanity in love and oneness with the natural.