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Goldfinches

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Swan

Oliver, Mary — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems

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One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. ... These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.

The Leaf and the Cloud

Oliver, Mary — Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT

A book-length poem in seven parts.

House of Light

Oliver, Mary — Wed, 31 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT

A collection of poetry written by Mary Oliver, exploring luminosity, along with love and death, the natural laws of the world, and other topics.

Evidence

Oliver, Mary — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Oliver

Blake, Mike — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

MARY OLIVER ~ Naturale. A Poem about the acclaimed U.S. Poet Mary Oliver. She represented all things bright and beautiful in Nature, and encompassed the less bright in her accomplished Poems. This poem doesn't describe her life, rather her poetry vision with snippets of her famous poems intertwined. ***** Please leave your Review/feedback, Not just Rating! many thanks. ***** To see more Poems by the same Author please click the Link HERE: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00SG40RM8 To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks. https://www.facebook.com/mike.cco1 I will then contact the Author your behalf. or on Twitter: miko_1_dollar ~ Tumblr : ccobes ~ Instagram: wild_poetrys / wild.poetry.webs TikTok: @wild_poetrys - mikecharliechaplinsoffice Website: www.wild-poetry.com https://www.facebook.com/New.Poets.Corner WOW https://www.facebook.com/wow.fact

A Rare Recording of Mary Oliver Reading Her Own Poetry

Oliver, Mary — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019), from Maple Heights, OH, was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States.

Devotions

Oliver, Mary — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Upstream

Oliver, Mary — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

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. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood 'friend' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, 'a place to enter, and in which to feel,' and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love"-- Dust jacket flap.

Wild and Precious

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR SHORT STORIES/COLLECTION

A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush featuring selections from the late poet's work, in her own voice, plus a tapestry of complementary voices reflecting on Oliver's legacy.

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver is a first of its kind audio commemoration of one of the greatest poets in modern history. Actress and activist Sophia Bush guides listeners on a journey of contemplation and discovery into the artistry of Mary Oliver as remembered by many who were most greatly impacted by it. For the first time, Oliver's Bennington College students open up about what it was like to have her for a teacher, friends and neighbors recall her love of place and nature, multi-faith leaders contemplate her spiritual lessons, and high-profile artists and fans like Carmen Maria Machado, Ross Gay, and Rainn Wilson, among others, reflect on the profound influence of her poetry on their own work and lives.

Wild and Precious features over 30 poems (including "The Summer Day," "When Death Comes," and "In Blackwater Woods") alongside abiding admiration for Oliver's craft and sheds new light on one of the greatest poets and writers in modern history. The result is a tapestry of sound that weaves together recollections of first-hand accounts with the poet, readings of her poetry by contributors and by Oliver herself, and personal testimonials—both heart-wrenching and joyful—of Oliver's imprint on American culture.

Contributors include: actress and activist Sophia Bush, chef Samin Nosrat, poet Ross Gay, writer Carmen Maria Machado, actress Busy Philipps, writer and actor Rainn Wilson, and memoirist Claire Bidwell Smith.

Devotions

Oliver, Mary — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA PICK • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver, a definitive and enduring collection of her best work

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.”—The Washington Post
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, from “The Summer Day”
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Arranged by Oliver herself shortly before her death in 2019, Devotions features Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight, through her last, Felicity, published in 2015.
This timeless volume 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.

Felicity

Oliver, Mary — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Blue Horses

Oliver, Mary — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

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.--Publisher's description.

Dog Songs

Oliver, Mary — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems open a window into her world. Collecting cherished poems together with new works, Dog Songs captures Oliver's relationships to the companions that have warmed her home and inspired her work. These poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief, are a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange from an observer of extraordinary vision. (Bestseller)

Dog Songs

Oliver, Mary — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

"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 of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver's well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision"-- Provided by publisher.

A Thousand Mornings

Oliver, Mary — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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. In these pages, Oliver 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 contained in the smallest of moments.

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures

Oliver, Mary — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems

Oliver, Mary — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 One.

Blue Iris

Oliver, Mary — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT

An elegant collection of poetry and prose about flowers, trees, and plants of all sorts. A companion to Owls and Other Fantasies, Mary Oliver's poems and essays about birds, was one of the best-selling volumes of poetry of 2003 and a Book Sense 76 selection. Blue Iris, Oliver's new collection, is designed to be a companion to that volume. Elegantly illustrated, Blue Iris brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Mary Oliver's favorite poems, and two previously unpublished essays. The poet considers roses, of course, and poppies and peonies; lilies and morning glories; the thick-bodied black oak and the fragrant white pine; the tall sunflower and the slender bean. James Dickey has said of her, "Far beneath the surface-flash of linguistic effect, Mary Oliver works her quiet and mysterious spell. It is a true spell, unlike any other poet's, the enchantment of the true maker." In Blue Iris, she has captured with breathtaking clarity the true enchantment and mysterious spell of flowers, weeds, plants, and trees and their magnetic hold on us.

Owls and Other Fantasies

Oliver, Mary — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Winter Hours

Oliver, Mary — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and everything else."

West Wind

Oliver, Mary — Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT

The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The brambles in their places, and the long stretches of mud? Flowers in every field, in every garden, with their soft beaks and their pastel shoulders? On one street after another, the litter ticks in the gutter. In one room after another, the lovers meet, quarrel, sicken, break apart, cry out. One or two leap from windows. Most simply lean, exhausted, their thin arms on the sill. They have done all they could. The golden eagle, that lives not far from here, has perhaps a thousand tiny feathers flowing from the back of its head, each one shaped like an infinitely small but perfect spear.-- (Source of description not identified).

Blue Pastures

Oliver, Mary — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

"With consummate craftsmanship, [the author] has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude"-- Back cover.

White Pine

Oliver, Mary — Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT

Poetry of nature. In Fall she writes: "the black oaks / fling their bronze fruit / into all the pockets of earth / pock pock / they knock against the thresholds / the roof the sidewalk / fill the eaves / the bottom line / of the old gold song / of the almost finished year."