With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built--meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a short space.
This collection of 38 new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over 40 years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end.
Here, as-yet-uncollected poems by the 1983 Pulitzer prize-winng poet open the collection, which proceeds backward through a 30-year selection of her verse. Incorporating both natural and domestic imagery, Oliver's even voice summons the spiritual into her own backyard. This volume was awarded the 1992 National Book Award.
"Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of 47 poems."--Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, authors of "Spirituality Legacy."
The fifty poems in "American Primitive" make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitiave things of America - the wilderness that ...
Here, as-yet-uncollected poems by the 1983 Pulitzer prize-winng poet open the collection, which proceeds backward through a 30-year selection of her verse. Incorporating both natural and domestic imagery, Oliver's even voice summons the spiritual into her own backyard. This volume was awarded the 1992 National Book Award.
Nine essays and a small selection of poetry. Oliver writes about turtle eggs, swans, poetry, poets, and much more. Oliver is a previous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Mary Oliver shows what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas".
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 CD.
In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. these vibrant, magical poems pulse with an aching awareness of nature's unaffected beauty. Her ...
Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've followed the "Daughter Track"--leaving a job to care for an aging parent--Geist offers emotional insight into one of the most difficult situations a son or daughter may face during his or her life.
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness -- so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive -- continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in ...
This collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver deals with nature and with love--the ways they change and remain the same as time passes.
The prose of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Oliver and the photographs of Cook are joined together to reveal the uniquely intimate intertwining of the artists personal lives as well as their art.
In this elegantly designed volume, Oliver collects 23 of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life--hawks, hummingbirds, kingfishers, swans, and, of course, the snowy owl.
A dazzling new collection of essays, poems, and prose poems by the best-selling author of The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know . "The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life , a luminous collection of seventeen ...
Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. . With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, ...
Oliver's first collection since she won the 1993 National Book Award takes for its subjects the bonds between people and the natural world, the delight of writing, and the value of silence.
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 thirty-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, ...
This latest book by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner is distinctive among her 17 volumes for . . . the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile . . . and unless we learn to cherish [it], we will destroy it--"America" magazine.
The 300-plus poems collected here each investiges the spirituality experienced by women. Contributors include, among others, Margaret Atwood, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forché, Tess Gallagher, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, and Anne Sexton.
This collection of 61 new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of 11 linked love poems.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
