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Authors: Mary Oliver
“The Truro Bear” and “Hannah’s Children” are from
Twelve Moons,
copyright © 1979 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown Book Group.
“The Chance to Love Everything,” “The Kitten,” “Ghosts,” “Humpbacks,” “Moles,” and “A Meeting” are from
American Primitive
by Mary Oliver, copyright © 1983 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown Book Group.
“Turtle,” “Five
A.M.
in the Pinewoods,” “The Hermit Crab,” “Pipefish,” “How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea,” and “The Summer Day” are from
House of Light,
copyright © 1990 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“The Gesture” is from
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems,
copyright © 1992 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
“Porcupine” and “Toad” are from
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems,
copyright © 1994 by Mary Oliver, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
“At Herring Cove” is from
Blue Pastures,
copyright © 1995 by Mary Oliver, reprinted by permission of Bill Reichblum.
“Swoon” is from
Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems,
Copyright © 1999 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
“One Hundred White-sided Dolphins” originally appeared in
The New Yorker.
“One Hundred White-sided Dolphins” and “Mink” are from
What Do We Know,
copyright © 2002 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Da Capo Press.
“Whelks” and “Alligator Poem” are from
New and Selected Poems, Volume One,
copyright © 1992 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“Carrying the Snake to the Garden” is from
Long Life,
copyright © 2004 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Da Capo Press.
“The Snow Cricket” and “The Poet Goes to Indiana” are from
Why I Wake Early,
copyright © 2004 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“Percy (One),” “Percy (Two),” and “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night (Three)” are from
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two,
copyright © 2005 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“Swimming with Otter,” “Percy (Four),” “News of Percy (Five),” “Percy (Six)” and “Percy (Seven)” are from
Thirst,
copyright © 2006 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“Desire,” “Black Swallowtail,” “Percy and Books (Eight),” “Percy (Nine),” and “I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life (Ten)” are from
Red Bird,
copyright © 2008 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Oliver, Mary
The truro bear and other adventures : poems and essays / Mary Oliver.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-8070-9708-3 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8070-6884-5 (acid-free paper) 1. Animals—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3565.L5T78 2008
811’.54—dc22 2008015400