{"product_id":"9780807068847","title":"The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems \u0026 Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes \"the creatures, with their \/ thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their \/ infallible sense of what their lives \/ are meant to be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Truro Bear and Other Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems, the closing section of this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Renée Loth has observed in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1983, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world . . . She teaches us the profound act of paying attention.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTell me, what is it you plan to do\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith your one wild and precious life?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mary Oliver, \"The Summer Day\" (one of the poems in this volume)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011649257712,"sku":"9780807068847","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807068847_p0.jpg?v=1763739318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807068847","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}