Mary Rose O Reilley: 2 books
The Barn at the End of the World
The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France,...
Earth, Mercy
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation -- pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions -- looking for a kind of junkyard grace: "Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind."
The first...