of Apollo” as translated
by Robert Bly: “You must change your life.”
The quotation in “More Evidence (1)” is by
Herbert Durand, from
The Field Book of
Common Ferns
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928).
Page 45, the author acknowledges Gerard Manley
Hopkins’ poem “Hurrahing in Harvest.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to the editors of the following magazines in which some of the poems, sometimes in slightly different form, have previously appeared.
Appalachia:
“A Fox in the Dark,” “More of the Unfinishable
Fox Story,” “The Last Word About Fox (Maybe),” “Trees”
Bark:
“Percy Wakes Me,” “The Sweetness of Dogs,” “Percy”
Michigan Quarterly:
“Swan”
Onearth:
“Beans Green and Yellow”
Orion:
“How Heron Comes”
Parabola:
“Passing the Unworked Field,” “April,” “Mist in the Morning, Nothing Around Me but Sand and Roses,” “When,” “In Your Hands”
Shenandoah:
“Just Around the House, Early in the Morning,” “Tom Dancer’s Gift of a Whitebark Pine Cone,” “The Poet Dreams of the Mountain,” “Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Oliver, Mary,
Swan : poems and prose poems / Mary Oliver.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8070-6899-1 (alk. paper)
E-ISBN 978-0-8070-6901-1
I. Title.
PS3565.L5S93 2010
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