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Mary Oliver's Poetry Captures Our Relationship With Technology - The Atlantic

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The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without noticing. In an age of distraction, her work is more urgent than ever.

I can say definitively now that I faltered in pursuit of my New Year’s resolution. My self-improvement project for the year was to read a fresh poem every morning, before glimpsing the accumulation of unresponded email and lifting the lid off Twitter. My purpose, when I explained it to my wife and kids a few hours before midnight, was to ritualistically remind myself of emotions other than those triggered by the front page. What I didn’t say is that I was also positioning myself like a senior citizen hunched over the crossword. I was warding off the possibility of mental deterioration. I have

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