tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post5842756279644058821..comments2024-03-28T14:12:07.313+00:00Comments on A Writer's Life: Learning to be AstonishedKathleen Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-4981681959836973222009-09-12T06:44:54.565+01:002009-09-12T06:44:54.565+01:00By a strange coincidence, an American friend recom...By a strange coincidence, an American friend recommended Mary Oliver and I started trawling the internet for her work - Garrison Keiller's site was one of those that came up and I think probably the source of this quote. There's quite a lot of her work out there on the net. You're absolutely right to say that 'sometimes only a poem will do'.Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-89726975162522380712009-09-11T15:30:23.466+01:002009-09-11T15:30:23.466+01:00Loved this post, Kathleen, not least because of it...Loved this post, Kathleen, not least because of its synchronicity. Yesterday, the Writer's Almanac daily poem - kindly delivered by email - was Mary Oliver's Self-Portrait (online here: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/09/10 ). This was the second time recently that I'd come across one of her poems by chance, so ordered a collection (the only one in stock) from the local library. I know what you mean about the inner tussle between Romantic Girl and Sternly Realistic Woman but have decided that, for the moment at least, I am going to be Romantic Old Woman. Now that I'm in my sixties, Self-Portrait resonates in a way that it probably would not have done when I was much younger. And I'm getting back into writing poetry too because sometimes, only a poem will do.60GoingOn16https://www.blogger.com/profile/14216400213406672396noreply@blogger.com