Red bird
Book • 2008
“Red Bird” is Mary Oliver’s twelfth collection of poetry, gathering sixty-one new poems that showcase her signature attentiveness to the natural world and her contemplative, spiritual voice.
The volume includes the poem “Winter and the Nuthatch” and ranges from intimate love lyrics to fierce reflections on environmental destruction and human suffering, while also celebrating animals, landscapes, and the small, luminous moments of daily life.
Written in accessible yet deeply resonant language, the collection affirms Oliver’s reputation as a poet of gratitude, moral clarity, and close observation.
The volume includes the poem “Winter and the Nuthatch” and ranges from intimate love lyrics to fierce reflections on environmental destruction and human suffering, while also celebrating animals, landscapes, and the small, luminous moments of daily life.
Written in accessible yet deeply resonant language, the collection affirms Oliver’s reputation as a poet of gratitude, moral clarity, and close observation.
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