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(0)Mary Oliver
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xvi, 109 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, her most personal book yet "What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1998, another by The Anchor Essay Annual.) With...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'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, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature....
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Physical Desc
82 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of poems the author 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. In these pages, she shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver's relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the subjects will come to colorful life here. These are poems...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
79 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive presents a new collection of poems that reflects her signature imagery-based language and her observations of the unaffected beauty of nature.
11) Felicity
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
81 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems."--Dust jacket.