This book is a breath to the heart that takes us into the relationship between two brilliant artists, two women who love each other and build their days together.

Our world shows in a close, intimate, and poetic way the love relationship between the poet Mary Oliver and the photographer Molly Malone Cook, through diaries, notes, and poems. A window into the private magic of a shared universe full of words and images, guided by attention to detail and wonder at the everyday. A simple and honest book that is a hymn to love, nature, and creation.

“'Every time I come home — every time — / someone there loves me. / Until then / I stop in the usual and black peace / like any pine tree'”

Between the wonder of receiving love from a lover and that of being part of the world (wide, bright, animal), this book is a tribute to the intimacy of two creative women who chose each other and lived together. But not only that; besides naming what they shared, Mary Oliver takes some distance to tell Molly Malone in her wisdom and different gaze, enjoying her photographic practice as an observer who never tires of looking.”

Sara Torres