![]() Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Mary Oliver A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver Upstream: Selected Essays Mary Oliver Burning Down the White. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press from New and Selected Poems. 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. 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. ![]() Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. 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. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. ![]() Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. ![]()
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