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Rules for the Dance by Mary Oliver"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance, wrote Alexander Pope. The dance, in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poets ear and a poets grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us

the Vietnam War

“—Rita Dove

and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits

It unites mythology and modernity as a means of coming to terms with the promises

Hide is a restless innovation of form and multimodal expression breaking open words across Arabic

Browne invokes the grief

and the meaning of forgiveness

probing the micro histories of the heart and asking urgent questions

Recalling her parents’ lessons on the art of Black revision

In this vivid account

these punk poems embody direct action and invite the audience into the desire-filled slippage between public sex and demonstration

poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing