This documentary about the poet Mary Oliver came out in August and is currently available on YouTube as well as on PBS streaming services. I was really looking forward to watching it and after I did, have to say it is wonderful. Here are some great short clips from the show where various people are reading Mary Oliver's poems and an older clip where Mary Oliver is reading "The Summer Day" at the 92nd street Y in NYC.
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The Summer Day
Mary Oliver 1935–2019
"Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
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