I am off to brunch in a minute or two, but I'll try to remember when I get back to find that poem I quoted in DM. It's probably in her collected poems.
I felt really strange the first time I quoted one of Oliver's poems in a fanfic, wondering if she'd hate it if she knew, but I've heard from so many people who discovered her and loved her through that story, that I'm glad I did it. That first story is in another of my F/X series, the Auld Acquaintance fics, the last of them, called "Five by Three."
And "Lilac City" Xander is a reader of poems, though Mary Oliver's not mentioned. Had fun with that, because I slipped in poets I knew in the Northwest.
I'm glad you found some poems you love in that fic!
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Date: 2006-09-23 03:01 pm (UTC)I felt really strange the first time I quoted one of Oliver's poems in a fanfic, wondering if she'd hate it if she knew, but I've heard from so many people who discovered her and loved her through that story, that I'm glad I did it. That first story is in another of my F/X series, the Auld Acquaintance fics, the last of them, called "Five by Three."
And "Lilac City" Xander is a reader of poems, though Mary Oliver's not mentioned. Had fun with that, because I slipped in poets I knew in the Northwest.
I'm glad you found some poems you love in that fic!