""I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place"" writes Mary Oliver, ""Yet each has its ... She is enamored of nature, not the cute nature of spring flowers/ prancing fawns but ...

However, I don't have any background in poetry. So, I figured I'd learn from one of the masters: Mary Oliver, who won a Pulitzer and National Book Award for her poetry. I picked up her 1994 book ...