“It Is A Serious Thing / Just To Be Alive” — Notes On Red Bird: Poems By Mary Oliver
So many of Mary Oliver's poems are about surrender, or coming to the very point of breaking, of being broken.
“It was as if he loved the pain, loved it as he’d loved me…” — from The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Published in 1984, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about her childhood and experience living in French-colonial Indochine.