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# Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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Review: Great poetry - Recently got into Mary Oliver poetry. This book has a lot to do with nature and how she feels about it. Normal feelings that are expressed beautifully.
Review: Filled with joy, pain and wonder - Another compilation of poems and essays, including a handful of new ones, in this case all about birds. Oliver is simply amazing. She makes subjects you may not care about feel meaningful and inspiring and filled with, for lack of a better word from my atheist brain, grace. While all of the essays are short and powerful, I especially liked the one about caring for a crippled gull she found on the beach for three months one winter. She called him Bird: “He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not fact, this is the other part of knowing something, when there is no proof, but neither is there any way toward disbelief. Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light. Bird was like that. Startling, elegant, alive.” Of course, then he dies and rips your heart out. And here’s an excerpt from a poem flipped to at random, called “Catbird”: “Since I see him every morning, I have rewarded myself the pleasure of thinking that he knows me./ Yet never once has he answered my nod./ He seems, in fact, to find in me a kind of humor, I am so vast, uncertain and strange./ I am the one who comes and goes, and who knows why./ Will I ever understand him?/ Certainly he will never understand me, or the world I come from./ For he will never sing for the kingdom of dollars./ For he will never grow pockets in his gray wings.” Grade: A

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #67,335 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Nature Poetry #8 in Poetry by Women #70 in Environmentalism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (880) |
| Dimensions  | 6.46 x 0.51 x 8.78 inches |
| Edition  | First Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 0807068683 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0807068687 |
| Item Weight  | 9.6 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 88 pages |
| Publication date  | September 30, 2003 |
| Publisher  | Beacon Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great poetry
*by J***S on January 11, 2026*

Recently got into Mary Oliver poetry. This book has a lot to do with nature and how she feels about it. Normal feelings that are expressed beautifully.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Filled with joy, pain and wonder
*by M***K on November 4, 2016*

Another compilation of poems and essays, including a handful of new ones, in this case all about birds. Oliver is simply amazing. She makes subjects you may not care about feel meaningful and inspiring and filled with, for lack of a better word from my atheist brain, grace. While all of the essays are short and powerful, I especially liked the one about caring for a crippled gull she found on the beach for three months one winter. She called him Bird: “He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not fact, this is the other part of knowing something, when there is no proof, but neither is there any way toward disbelief. Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light. Bird was like that. Startling, elegant, alive.” Of course, then he dies and rips your heart out. And here’s an excerpt from a poem flipped to at random, called “Catbird”: “Since I see him every morning, I have rewarded myself the pleasure of thinking that he knows me./ Yet never once has he answered my nod./ He seems, in fact, to find in me a kind of humor, I am so vast, uncertain and strange./ I am the one who comes and goes, and who knows why./ Will I ever understand him?/ Certainly he will never understand me, or the world I come from./ For he will never sing for the kingdom of dollars./ For he will never grow pockets in his gray wings.” Grade: A

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poetry you can relate to
*by M***R on January 20, 2025*

A lovely book by a favorite author. Mary Oliver’s poems are very approachable. Her nature poems are a joy to read and inspire you to look around and open your eyes to the beauty and truth of the natural world.

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