{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Birds on Birds","title":"\"You do not have to be good,\" said Mary Oliver","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5718,"description":"She won the Pulitzer. She spent forty years loving a woman named Molly. She wrote more poems about birds than almost anything else. Hannah + Cleo celebrate Pride Month with Mary Oliver. A quiet queer icon, nature's poet, and the writer who convinced a generation that paying attention is a radical act.\n32:10 Mary Oliver conversation starts\nMusic by fknsyd\n\nPlease listen to this\n\nSources\nPrimary Sources:\nOliver, Mary. New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Beacon Press, 1992.\nOliver, Mary. New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. Beacon Press, 2005.\nOliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early. Beacon Press, 2004.\nOliver, Mary. Blue Horses. Penguin Press, 2014.\nOliver, Mary. Upstream: Selected Essays. Penguin Press, 2016.\nOliver, Mary. Our World (photographs by Molly Malone Cook). Beacon Press, 2007.\nOliver, Mary. Felicity: Poems. Penguin Press, 2015. (Recommended acquisition for love story section)\nAcademic:\nCardenas, Elijah. \"'A Poem Should Always Have Birds in It': Birds in Mary Oliver's Poetry.\" The Macksey Journal, Vol. 3, Article 64, Johns Hopkins University, 2022.\nKeegan, Bridget. \"The wisdom of the owls: gender, nature and spirituality in the poetry of Mary Oliver.\" Journal of Religion and Society, Supplement Series, Vol. 5, 2009.\nBurton-Christie, Douglas. \"Nature, Spirit, and Imagination in the Poetry of Mary Oliver.\" CrossCurrents, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 1996.\nMurphy, Patrick D. \"Pollywogs and Polylogues: Material Spirituality in the Writings of Mary Oliver.\" ANQ, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2020.\nDavis, Todd. \"The Earth as God's Body: Incarnation as Communion in the Poetry of Mary Oliver.\" Christianity & Literature, Vol. 58, No. 4, 2009.\nUllyatt, Gisela. \"'The Only Chance to Love This World': Buddhist Mindfulness in Mary Oliver's Poetry.\" Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2011.\nBonds, D.S. \"The Language of Nature in the Poetry of Mary Oliver.\" Women's Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1992.\nBiographical / Journalism:\n\"Mary Oliver: Nature Poet.\" New Jersey Conservation Foundation....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4cdikkvtYTH7Ou38nrAALypCR5hxu3XQmPDdp6NMU2c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YzVk/YmE5OTdhNTY5MDFk/OTJkZWZjYjlkODUx/ZTI4ZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}