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  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This ... [Read More]
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0399563245
    • ASIN: 0399563245
    • ISBN: 0399563245
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • New and Selected Poems, Volume One

    Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind ... [Read More]
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068772
    • UPC: 046442068772
    • ASIN: 0807068772
    • ISBN: 0807068772
    • Brand: Oliver, Mary
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • A Thousand Mornings: Poems

    The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0143124056
    • ASIN: 0143124056
    • ISBN: 0143124056
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Dog Songs: Poems

    “The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it.Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely... [Read More]
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0143125834
    • ASIN: 0143125834
    • ISBN: 0143125834
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems

    The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068799
    • UPC: 046442068796
    • ASIN: 0807068799
    • ISBN: 0807068799
    • Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • New and Selected Poems: 2

    Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 080706887X
    • ASIN: 080706887X
    • ISBN: 080706887X
    • Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • American Primitive

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryHer most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside."American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." -- Stanley Kunitz"These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." -- May Swenson
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0316650048
    • ASIN: 0316650048
    • ISBN: 0316650048
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Felicity: Poems

    Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and b... [Read More]
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0143128760
    • ASIN: 0143128760
    • ISBN: 0143128760
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems


    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: B004H1UOEU
    • ASIN: B004H1UOEU
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

    “Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver’s tribute to “the mortal way” of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been “totally loyal.”
    Mary Oliver Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807069140
    • ASIN: 0807069140
    • ISBN: 0807069140
    • Brand: Beacon Press MA
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

    "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very
    Mary Oliver Best Poems
    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book

    • UPC: 55747157
    • Rating: 4.5

  • Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down--and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of
    Mary Oliver Best Poems
    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of

    • UPC: 757959916

  • Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down--and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of
    Mary Oliver Best Poems
    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of

    • UPC: 251352115

  • Many Miles : Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

    Following the success of "At Blackwater Pond," this collection from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of 37 previously published poems and four as yet uncollected, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic
    Mary Oliver Best Poems
    Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second CD from best-selling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four as yet uncollected, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry-from her classic nature writing, to her verses for her mischievous bichon Percy, to her ever-deepening spiritual poems. The CD comes in a handsome full-cloth package that includes a booklet with an introductory essay by the poet on the magical dynamic between speaker and listener, a table of contents, text of the title poem, and

    • UPC: 12454840
    • Rating: 1.0

  • At Blackwater Pond : Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

    This first-ever recording of beloved poet Mary Oliver reading a selection of 40 poems comes with a 15-page booklet with an original essay, photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full list of the poems and their sources. 1
    Mary Oliver Best Poems
    One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. --Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book ReviewMary Oliver has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own

    • UPC: 4323354
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Mary Oliver reads from A Thousand Mornings

    Mary Oliver reads from her book of poetry, A Thousand Mornings, on Oct 15, 2012 at the 92nd Street Y. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://bit.ly/1GpwawV Your support helps us keep our con...
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    Mary Oliver reads "The Summer Day" (aka "The Grasshopper")

    Mary Oliver reads her poem, "The Summer Day," Copyright 1990. "The Summer Day" first appeared in House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990), and has been reprinted in New and Selected Poems, Volume 1 (Bea...
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    Mary Oliver reading Wild Geese

    Poet Mary Oliver reads her poem "Wild Geese": You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft ani...
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