Staff Pick
Does Mary Oliver's heart beat slower to be able to capture the delicacy of a morning, getting out of bed, or walking outside like she does? I don't know and pardon if the question is distracting. What I mean to say is that reading her work makes my heart beat slower, helps me feel how my life is poetic too. Lots of gratitude for this person. Recommended By Dana S., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
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-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work.
The volume includes 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 marvel.
On the eve of the publication of her third volume of poems, Twelve Moons, Archibald MacLeish wrote to Mary Oliver: "You have indeed entered the kingdom. You have done something better than create your own world: you have discovered the world we all live in and do not see and cannot feel." In the twenty-five years since, Mary Oliver has published nine more volumes of poetry, each revealing new aspects of our world, inviting us to pause with her and to see and feel them. In this new volume she demonstrates, perhaps more affectionately than ever before, "what it means to be human and what is worthwhile about life" (Library Journal), or, more simply, why the poet wakes early.
Review
"Mary Oliver's 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
Review
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable." Miami Herald
Synopsis
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 new poems an entire volume in itself along with works chosen by Oliver from the six books she has published since
New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
This graceful volume, designed to be paired with New and Selected Poems, Volume One, includes new poems on birds, toads, flowers, insects, bodies of water, and the extraordinary experience of the everyday in our lives. In the words of Alicia Ostriker, "Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing." In both the older and new poems, Mary Oliver is a poet at the height of her control of image and language.
Synopsis
The long-awaited follow-up collection to Mary Oliver's National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
Synopsis
Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems.”Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and Health
Praise for Owls and Other Fantasies:
Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose about birds
all rendered with the precision of a line-drawing of a single feather that puts the entire wing into perspective.” Orion
Praise for Mary Olivers poetry:
These are life enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the sublime from the subliminal.” Sally Connolly, Poetry
Mary Olivers 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
The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable” Miami Herald
Synopsis
& quot; Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems.& quot; & mdash; Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and Health< br=""> < br=""> Praise for Owls and Other Fantasies: < br=""> < br=""> & quot; Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose about birds& hellip; all rendered with the precision of a line-drawing of a single feather that puts the entire wing into perspective.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Orion < br=""> < br=""> Praise for Mary Oliver& #39; s poetry: < br=""> < br=""> & quot; These are life enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the sublime from the subliminal.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Sally Connolly, Poetry< br=""> < br=""> & quot; Mary Oliver& #39; s 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.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; May Swenson< br=""> < br=""> & quot; The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Miami Herald
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Mary Oliver, winner of numerous prizes, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her poetry books include Owls and Other Fantasies; House of Light; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; Dream Work; White Pine; West Wind, The Leaf and the Cloud; and What Do We Know. She has also published five books of prose, including Blue Pastures, Rules for the Dance, Winter Hours, and, most recently, Long Life. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Molly Malone Cook.