{"product_id":"what-do-we-know-poems","title":"What Do We Know: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the many admirers of Mary Olivers dazzling poetry and luminous vision  as well as for those who may only now be discovering her work  What Do We Know will be a revelation and  in the words of Stanley Kunitz  \"a blessing.\" These forty poemsof observing  of searching  of pausing  of astonishment  of giving thanksembrace in every sense the natural world  its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable imagesfrom one hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every stalk and leaf in a fieldeven as she reminds us  after Emerson  that \"the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.\"What was most wonderful?The sea  and its wide shoulders;the sea and its triangles;the sea lying back on its long athletes spine.What did you think was happening?The green breast of the hummingbird;the eye of the pond;the wet face of the lily;the bright  puckered knee of the broken oak;the red tulip of the foxs mouth;the up-swing  the down-pour  the frayed sleeve of the first snowso the gods shake us from our sleep.from \"Gratitude\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985839091765,"sku":"ByrdShop_030680994X","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780306809941.jpg?v=1770873461","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-do-we-know-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}