New and Selected Poems. Volume One

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Mary Oliver

This is a collection of poems by the award-winning poet, Mary Oliver whose style has been compared with Emily Dickson.

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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, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. “Do you love this world?” she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. “Do you cherish your humble and silky life?” She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be “an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it’s done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive.” She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world “as if for the second time/the way it really is.” Oliver’s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

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Weight 352 g
Dimensions 22.8 × 15.2 × 1.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Beacon Press

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xii, 255

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K