Mary Oliver
Writer
September 10, 1935 –
January 17, 2019
Credits:
Poems:
At Black River; August; Banyan; Beside the Waterfall; Breakage;
Death at a Great Distance; Death at Wind River; Every Morning; Fall; Forty
Years; The Hermit Crab; Hummingbirds; In Malaysia; The Kingfisher; The Mango;
Morning Glories; The Moths; The Owl; Pilot Snake; Rain; The Real Prayers Are
Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First; The Shark; Singapore; The
Son; Song for Autumn; Spring; THE STORM; This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty
Pines; The Waterfall; What Is It?; White-Eyes.
Books:
A Poetry Handbook; A Thousand Mornings; American Primitive; At
Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver (audio cd); Blue Horses; Blue
Iris: Poems and Essays; Blue Pastures; Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary
Oliver; Dog Songs; Dream Work; Evidence; Felicity; House of Light; Long Life:
Essays and Other Writings; New and Selected Poems [volume one]; New and
Selected Poems, volume two; No Voyage, and Other Poems; Our World with
photographs by Molly Malone Cook; Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays;
Provincetown; Red Bird; Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading
Metrical Verse; Sleeping in the Forest; Swan: Poems and Prose Poems; The Leaf
and the Cloud; The Night Traveler; The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems; The
Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays; Thirst: Poems; Twelve Moons;
Upstream: Selected Essays; West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems; What Do We Know;
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems; Why I Wake Early: New Poems; Wild geese:
selected poems; Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems.
Recommended
reading:
Devotions
The Selected
Poems of Mary Oliver
Published by
Penguin Books.
Published
2020.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
0399563261
ISBN-13:
9780399563263
Description:
Now a Read
With Jenna Book Club Pick.
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.
“I love
[Mary’s] work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . .
I find her poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful.” – Jenna Bush Hager.
“No matter
where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” – The
Washington Post.
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 timeless volume,
arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best.
Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable
collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of
the natural world.
