House of Light Condition:Like New Signs of age and also

Signs of age and also some foxing in margins of certain pages

Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems

from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage

and are sure to stimulate much thought and discussion on the part of practitioners

we learn that they were intelligent

House of Light Condition:Like New Signs of age and alsoThis collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume). Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award. Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award.