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Cargando... Our World (edición 2009)por Mary Oliver (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A moving elegy for her partner of 40 years, late lesbian poet Mary Oliver preserved a fragment of their companionship through this short but nicely curated book. Her partner, Molly Malone Cook, who was a photographer and also Mary’s literary agent was affectionately and mysteriously referred in her writings as 'M.' In Our World, Mary shared their intimacy, their simple yet rich lives tied with their passion for nature and art, in glimpses through carefully chosen yet curiously varied photographs taken by Molly (a candid photo of Cocteau included!) interspersed by Mary’s affectionate prose which habitually veered into poetry (one poem included was Walking home from Oak-Head). Whilst a number of bittersweet reminiscences included their first encounter (Mary said of Molly: "I took one look and fell, look and tumble"), their struggle to make ends meet, and even the ordinariness of their lives, the book only showed one photo of them together in the last page of the book. Mary Oliver was keen on retaining their privacy—a world created and known only between them which included some excerpts from Molly's journal without complete context. It's quite telling to discover they met at Edna St. Vincent Millay's home whilst Mary worked as secretary to Edna's sister. And although I can't say the photographs or poems were of greatest quality, I can't help but see the catharsis this personal project brought for Mary after Molly's passing. In reading Our World, there was an unsaid lasting devotion I found deeply affecting. I think it's always a blessing to love, be loved, and spend the rest of one's life with someone. Mary recognised this with gratitude, grief, and a grin. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. Our World weaves forty-nine of Cook's photographs and selections from her journals with Oliver's extended writings, both reminiscence and reflection, in prose and in poetry. The result is an intimate revelation of their lives and art. Within the art world, Molly Malone Cook made her reputation as an early advocate of photography as an art form; she was a champion of the work of now-famous photographers, including Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and W. Eugene Smith. There are famous faces here as well, captured by Cook's camera, among them Walker Evans, Robert Motherwell and Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of twentieth-century art at the Metropolitan Museum. Cook and Oliver also lived among writers, and Cook caught several on film, including Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer. Other artists and dozens of wonderful characters and scenes are also immortalized by Cook's unfailing eye for telling detail and composition. Oliver writes of Cook's work, the people they knew, and the places they visited or lived. The poet's beautiful text captures not only the vivifying qualities of her partner's work, but the texture of their shared world. In Mary Oliver's words, Cook taught the beginner poet "to see, with searching attention and compassion." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I've been reading Oliver for years now, but this is the first time I've experienced Cook's work. Her photography is quite distinct, and often has this mixture of nostalgia alongside exploration, like she's already remembering and meditating on the moment she is currently experiencing in front of her. It also feels like it's capturing a breath: I know that's literally what photos do in a way, but with her work it's as if you can FEEL the people in the picture about to exhale. Absolutely wonderful stuff. ( )