Review 623: Little Alleluias

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose by Mary Oliver
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I would say I’m a fan of Mary Oliver’s poetry, although I have not read much of her work. She is very nature orientated, which I can usually connect with. Poetry is hard to rate, hard to judge, usually I just go by if I connected with the poem or not.

With this collection of poetry and essays, prose poems, I found myself not connecting. I’m not sure why either. Nature was there, throughout the book, with the exception of the essays on the Concord writers Hawthorne and Emerson (perhaps my favorite part of this collection).

Not sure what it was about these works, I just kept reading and hoped for one or two that really spoke to me, but honestly none did. Yet, even here I can see she is a good writer.

Thanks Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.