Based on the few poems from this book that are featured in another one of Mary Oliver’s poetry collections, Devotions, I already knew this book would be one of my favorite of hers (or any other poet’s, for that matter). However, those few poems did not prepare me for just how much I would love this book. I did not realize how present Molly would be in these pages, and for anyone who has not read “Our World” by Mary Oliver, featuring photographs taken by Molly Malone Cook, I would recommend that you do so before reading “Thirst”, so you have some background on their relationship and their life together. This is also the most Biblical of Mary Oliver’s work that I’ve read so far, and the poems that refer to God and the Bible are some of my favorites. Some of them remind me of being in a good church, so much so that I was thinking she would have probably liked to have listened to my old pastor sometime. I have so many underlines in this book that I will definitely be coming back to, and I’m sure I’ll be rereading the entire thing eventually.