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 poems
00:30unheard of she was an independent woman who wrote the poetry she wanted to write who loved who she
00:38wanted to love Molly was this charismatic stylish sophisticated person we did not have much income
00:46we 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
01:01thank you you could not contain her any more than you could contain the season
01:12I could sit for two hours and look at the clouds and be very silent
01:17everybody thinks Mary was this little earth mother
01:20and that certainly wasn't the life that she led that was one of my frustrations with Mary's poems she
01:28was just presenting herself in the light what is the storm one of the things about traumatic
01:35experiences is that you have to go in earnestly to look at it Mary spent some time feeling a little
01:46unmoored you can hear the truck coming down the road you know it was in that way Mary is also
01:54a good
01:54cautionary tale children forget they don't know why they have nightmares all the time
02:09and then you started this new book what can I say that I 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
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