Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver weather forecasting Bernadette discusses how her story

Bernadette discusses how her story

sketches or etchings—map your favorite trail

Through the mountains

and starlings appear here

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver weather forecasting Bernadette discusses how her storyElegantly illustrated, this follow up collection to "Owls and Other Fantasies" brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Oliver's favorite poems, and two previously unpublished essays that capture the "true enchantment" of flowers, weeds, plants, and trees and their magnetic hold. Blue Iris fortuitously offers an extended sequence and new contexts for a writer whose precise eye and instinct for surprising images have made her one of the best