Everything you need to understand or teach Music Lessons by Mary Oliver.
Mary Oliver is usually and conveniently referred to as a New England nature or pastoral poet and thought to descend from a line of other New Eng-197-7 land pastoralist writers, from Thoreau to Robert Frost. "Music Lessons," from Oliver's third volume of poetry, Twelve Moons (1979), however, is somewhat uncharacteristic since its inspiration and situation begin in a house at a private music lesson where a teacher takes a break from...