I have come to believe that 2023 will go down in my memory as The Year I Appreciated Poetry. [a:Mary Oliver|23988|Mary Oliver|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1634180145p2/23988.jpg]'s collection is the thing that cemented this designation. I am so lucky to have tumbled onto it. The editors made an interesting choice for a collection that spans the author's entire career by ordering it with the most recent poems first and working backward to her earliest. This was a wise choice because her later work is imbued with a subtlety and simplicity that some of her earlier work does not quite possess. Even before finishing this volume, I purchased [b:Blue Horses|20821239|Blue Horses|Mary Oliver|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1398032287l/20821239._SY75_.jpg|40167110]. I look forward to settling in with it over the holidays. ( )

I will never get tired of reading her poetry. ( )

Gorgeous, inspirational poems. I will be reading this book again and again, I think. ( )

I'm vaguely aware that many of the Guardians of Poesy aren't fans of Oliver but I enjoyed this collection. Mostly nature poems, I read a few a day and found them soothing and, at the same time, insightful. ( )

MO's poetry is well-written, straight-forward, and occasionally moves me, e.g. her poems about her dogs, but I'm just not someone who is looking for poetry that's mostly about seeing God in the voice of a thrush. ( )