News at Eleven: Many of the poems in Evidence

also focus on the moments or transitions in life where our perspective begins to change. In "Halleluiah," [Mary] Oliver explains that "Everyone should be born into this world happy/and loving everything./But in truth it rarely works that way." She admits that she has spent her life "clamoring" for happiness, and then the poem poses several questions to the reader:

And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes
almost forgetting how wondrous the world is
and how miraculously kind some people can be?

from AfterEllen.com: Across the Page: Poetry Collections

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