Mary Oliver reads from A Thousand Mornings

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  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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

    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 pow... [Read More]

  • Dog Songs: Poems

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

    “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 wor... [Read More]

  • American Primitive

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

    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 singu... [Read More]

  • Upstream: Selected Essays

    • ASIN: 1594206708
    • ISBN: 1594206708
    • Brand: Penguin Press
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year! The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver.   “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, w... [Read More]

  • A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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

    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... [Read More]

  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems

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

    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 m... [Read More]

  • Felicity: Poems

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

    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 ... [Read More]

  • New and Selected Poems, Volume One

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

    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, brilliantl... [Read More]

  • A Poetry Handbook

    • ASIN: 0156724006
    • ISBN: 9780156724005
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Dream Work

    • ASIN: 0871130696
    • ISBN: 0871130696
    • Brand: Atlantic Monthly Press
    • Manufacturer: The Atlantic Monthly Press

    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 ... [Read More]

  • Thirst: Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068977
    • ISBN: 0807068977
    • Brand: Beacon Press MA
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    Thirst, a collection of fortythree new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chro... [Read More]

  • House of Light

    • UPC: 046442068116
    • ASIN: 080706811X
    • ISBN: 080706811X
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?—Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume)Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the ... [Read More]

  • New and Selected Poems: 2

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

    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 O... [Read More]

  • Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

    • ASIN: B004H1UOEU
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

    • ASIN: 0306814129
    • ISBN: 0306814129
    • Brand: Oliver, Mary
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls ... [Read More]

  • Blue Horses: Poems

    • ASIN: 0143127810
    • ISBN: 0143127810
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seemin... [Read More]

  • Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

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

    “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 ... [Read More]

  • Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

    • UPC: 046442068758
    • ASIN: 0807068756
    • ISBN: 0807068756
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original to this volume. She adds two beautifully crafted essays... [Read More]

  • House of Light

    • ASIN: B005JT1U92
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?—Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume)Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the ... [Read More]

  • Red Bird: Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068934
    • ISBN: 0807068934
    • Brand: Oliver, Mary
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection ... [Read More]

  • Mary Oliver reads from A Thousand Mornings

    Mary Oliver reads "The Summer Day" (aka "The Grasshopper")

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