Mary Oliver
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A book-length poem in seven parts.
"With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said: 'Mary Oliver's 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...
24) Red bird: poems
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems celebrates the many forms that love can take and bemoans the fate of the natural world.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Poetry of nature. In Fall she writes: "the black oaks / fling their bronze fruit / into all the pockets of earth / pock pock / they knock against the thresholds / the roof the sidewalk / fill the eaves / the bottom line / of the old gold song / of the almost finished year."
30) Blue pastures
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
"With consummate craftsmanship, [the author] has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
""Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing."-Alicia Ostriker, The Nation" ""Mary Oliver's 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" ""One would have to reach back perhaps to [John] Clare or Christopher Smart to safely cite a parallel...
36) Twelve moons
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
"In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. These vibrant, magical poems pulse with an aching awareness of nature's unaffected beauty ... Her absorbing intimate vision leads us into the natural and human kingdoms we only fleetingly grasp"--Back cover.
