Mary Oliver(1935-2019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. She wrote over 30 volumes of poetry and prose, including Blue Iris, Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, two volumes of New and Selected Poems, and Devotions, as well as two essay collections, Long Life and Upstream.
It has always seemed, across her 15 books of poetry, five of prose
and several essays and chapbooks, that Mary Oliver might leave us
at any minute. Even a 1984 Pulitzer Prize couldn't pin her to the
ground. She'd change quietly into a heron or a bear and fly or walk
on forever. —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"Oliver's poetry is of the Earth, and about the Earth, and as these
poems give voice to the planet, they render human life more
beautiful, more sentient, more meaningful." —Karen McCarthy,
ForeWord
"These are life-enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the
sublime from the subliminal." —Sally Connolly, Poetry
"Mary's Oliver poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing.
Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural
world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations."
—Stanley Kunitz
"Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and
implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." —New York
Times Book Review
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