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A selection of the poetry of Mary Oliver including Wild Geese, The Journey, Journey and When Death Comes.

A Poem by Mary Oliver By Robert Hass August 23, 1998 Here's something for summer while it's still with us, from the most recent book by a much-admired and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver of Provincetown, Mass.: Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith Every summer I listen and look under the sun's brass and even into the moonlight, but I can't hear anything, I can't see anything ...