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Mary Oliver inhabits as intimately as possible what lies outside her door, creating poems that are ekphrastic odes to the natural order.

In a startling shift, this collection of poems reveals uncertainty. Yet, by book's end, the natural tropes at the core of Oliver's poetry have transcended the questions.

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Mary Oliver's "Reckless Poem" features the theme of self-awareness, dramatizing the act of intuitive knowledge superseding supposedly empirical evidence.

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