Mary Oliver

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Indiana

Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

What good company Mary Oliver is the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The Best Amer

Winter Hours

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New Poems

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

Why I Wake Early

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Texas

Poems

"A breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human relationships . . . An eloquent celebration of simple joy from one of America's most beloved poets." --The Washington Post

"Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing--as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." --New York Times Book Review

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in this collection of poems

"If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver's love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes--with joy--the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.

Felicity

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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.

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

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Text block is in good condition, has some cover damage and an inscription on the title page. 

A collection of poems covering such topics as nature, writing, and art.

New and Selected Poems

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California

Poems and Prose Poems

A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.

West Wind

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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.

New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

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New York

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A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.?

Poets and those who simply want to understand poetry will enjoy this study of poetry as a conscious craft.?

Breaking down the basics with examples from well-known poems, Oliver shows how the dimensions of sound and rhythm (musicality) and lyrical words (assonance, alliteration, etc.) can combine to make powerful verse. She enables readers to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas."

Rules for the Dance

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"""Devotions"" is a collection of Mary Oliver's poetry, offering an intimate exploration of nature, spirituality, and the human experience. Her delicate yet powerful poems invite readers to reflect on the beauty of the natural world, the fleeting nature of life, and the search for meaning and connection. Through lyrical language and vivid imagery, Oliver encourages a deep appreciation for the simple moments that make life extraordinary. The collection embodies her reverence for life’s quiet wonders."

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Devotions by Mary Oliver Leather-Bound

Celebrate the lyrical beauty of nature, life, and introspection with New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work continues to resonate with readers around the world. This collection gathers many of Oliver’s most beloved poems alongside newer works, showcasing her deep reverence for the natural world and her quiet, profound observations on existence. With clarity, grace, and spiritual depth, Oliver’s poetry invites readers to pause, reflect, and embrace the everyday miracles of life. Her verse explores themes of solitude, wonder, loss, and connection—all set against the rich backdrop of forests, fields, and rivers. Whether you are new to her work or a longtime admirer, this collection is a stunning introduction to the voice that has become a guide for living with intention and awareness. This premium leather-bound edition is elegantly designed to honor the timeless beauty of Oliver’s poetry. A perfect gift for poets, nature lovers, and collectors of classic literature, this edition offers a lasting tribute to one of America's most cherished literary voices.

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New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver Leather-Bound Edition

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Iowa

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history."

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text.

The House of the Seven Gables

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Robert Atwan

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Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this "rich and thoughtful collection" (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune).

The Best American Essays 2009

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Collects Emerson's well-known speeches, essays, and poetry that expressed the scholar's philosophy in transcendentalism and defined the American identity.

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