00:03when you say you felt different how did different feel to you not belonging I
00:10very much wished not to be noticed and to be left alone she was our most famous
00:17poet for a long time and yet completely elusive I think she was always a beatnik
00:22mystic she's radical it was shocking I was a girl in Ohio and I wanted to write
00:29poems I've heard of she was an independent woman who wrote the poetry she wanted to write who loved
00:38who she wanted to love Molly was this charismatic stylish sophisticated person we did not have much
00:45income we had love and work and play Mary's career was what this couple was about the winners of the
00:551984 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today Mary Oliver won the National Book Award for poetry you
01:03could not contain her any more than you could contain the season I could sit for two hours and look
01:14at the
01:14clouds and be very silent everybody thinks Mary was this little earth mother that certainly wasn't the
01:22life that she led that was one of my frustrations with Mary's poems she was just presenting herself
01:29in the light what is the storm one of the things about traumatic experiences is that you have to go
01:37in earnestly to look at it Mary spent some time feeling a little unmoored you can hear the truck coming
01:49down the road you know it was and that way Mary is also a good cautionary tale children forget they
01:59don't
01:59know why they have nightmares all the time and then you started this new book what can I say that
02:12I have not said before
02:20Mary was very clear that it wasn't going to define her
02:26I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the world
02:33Mary was very clear that it was just the reason why it was not so that the first season was
02:33unfortunately
02:33so we got saved by two of the years and I'm a happy one of the things that came down
02:35we are well about the by-by-by-by-by-by-by-by-by-by-by-by.
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