The Hawthorne Barn
29 Miller Hill Road
Provincetown, MA 02657
United States
Admission: $20
Provincetown lost one of its greatest writers, observers, and community members this winter with the passing of Mary Oliver. Her unique perception of the world and the words she used to describe it have inspired and influenced many. To celebrate the gift of her poetry, Twenty Summers and The Grolier Poetry Foundation and Forums Trust (the oldest poetry bookstore in America, located in Cambridge) will bring together four distinguished poets, including Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018), to read from their favorite works by Mary Oliver and discuss her powerful legacy.
Martha Collins
Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars. She has also published eleven volumes of poetry.
This masterful companion to Day Unto Day finds common ground between contradictions—beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political.
During one month each year, for six years, the author wrote a short poem each day. The resulting six sequences of this masterly collection offer haunting reflections on time, and capture the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another.
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, this collection suffuses image with memory and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations—printed alongside the original Vietnamese—the poems sing out with the wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal.