Mary Oliver looked 'past reason, past the provable'
Critic V.S. Pritchett once remarked of Simone de Beauvoir that she “is one of those writers who dig and dig until they pile up the monumental.”
It points to the way that some writers yield their insights slowly and incrementally, creating a body of work eventually revealed as something grand.
That thought came to mind with the recent death of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver. Oliver’s poetry collections
