LITTLE ALLELUIAS Collected Poetry and Prose

Golden Voice narrator Kimberly Farr performs Mary Oliver's poems and prose with grace and understanding, and at just the right pace. She gently grabs the listener by the ear as she reads Oliver's intimate and interrogative works. Farr's ability to intensify Oliver's poetic language elevates the two poetry collections, and she also captures the poet's fetching prose in the audiobook's third section. Oliver's ability to celebrate the natural world is fully on display. She lived a solitary life on Cape Cod, where she was remarkably observant. Her re-creations of her many experiences--being surrounded by dolphins, misted by whales, bitten by a mother goose--enliven her tightly constructed works. An heiress to the Transcendentalists, she wrote essays on Emerson and Hawthorne that are grand appreciations. This is an audiobook to cherish. A.D.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]