American Primitive
by Mary Oliver
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Author: Mary OliverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-04-30
ISBN: 0316650048
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Book Review: A Cultural Icon (...which doesn't bode well for our culture)
Summary: 1 Stars
Three Tenors, Riverdance, Deepak Chopra... Add Mary Oliver to the list of contemporary swill that bloats our self-indulgent and self-important mass culture. The current fad in poetry has been to take care not to make the real, "too real" (and therefore disturbing to most consumers). But to drape it in a gauzy romanticism, making the truths that exist in this world harmless and safe for consumption by an audience who want nothing more than to continue in a sheltered belief of a gentle anthropomorphic world.The fact that this received a Pulitzer says less about the work and more about the sheer lack of discerning taste on the part of the Pulitzer committee.
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