Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery t
Mornings with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 coast
Now in paperback: the national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "To read Thirst, Mary Oliver's most recent book of poems, is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of bei
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in the case of Oliver's brief and luminous book, refers to the
“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.”—Chicago TribunePulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver’s persona
I go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable,what shall-what should I do? And the sea saysin its lovely voice:Exc
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, spar
A collection of new and favorite poems, celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet’s world Beloved by her readers, special to the poet’s own heart, Mary Oliver’s dog poems offer a special window
Finally in paperback, a collection of forty-six poems that delve into the mysteries of life, love, and death?Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an
In this new volume of forty-seven poems, Mary Oliver delves even deeper than she has in the past into the mysteries of life, love, and death. Exploring the evidence presented to us daily by the natur
“Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems.”—Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and HealthPraise for
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 alw
Strikingly redesigned to accompany the publication of New and Selected Poems, Volume TwoPraise for the poetry of Mary Oliver:“One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver’s work is the consis
Strikingly redesigned to accompany the publication of New and Selected Poems, Volume TwoPraise for the poetry of Mary Oliver:“One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver’s work is the consis
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, sp
Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book AwardThis collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of o
