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Blue Pasturesby Mary Oliver , John RadziewiczISBN 0156002159 (0-15-600215-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Pastures'Book summary:With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver 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.[via]More editions of Blue Pastures:
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The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poemby Mary OliverISBN 0306810735 (0-306-81073-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem'Book summary: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 and mysteries and consolations." The Boston Globe has called Mary Oliver "a great poet . . . she is amazed but not blinded." And the Miami Herald has said: "The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable."[via]More editions of The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem:
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Long Life: Essays and Other Writingsby Mary OliverISBN 0306814129 (0-306-81412-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Life: Essays and Other Writings'Book summary:"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose." With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as "one of our very best poets" (New York Times Book Review).[via]More editions of Long Life: Essays and Other Writings:
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A Poetry Handbookby Mary OliverISBN 0156724006 (0-15-672400-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poetry Handbook'Book summary:This slender guide by Mary Oliver deserves a place on the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms (and lack thereof), tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of wonderful poems (too bad Oliver was so modest as to not include her own). What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's passion for her subject, which she describes as "a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind." One comes away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is good, hard work. [via]
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The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poemsby Mary OliverISBN 0151777500 (0-15-177750-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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What Do We Know: Poemsby Mary OliverISBN 0306812061 (0-306-81206-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do We Know: Poems'Book summary:For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may only now be discovering her work, What Do We Know will be a revelation and, in the words of Stanley Kunitz, "a blessing." These forty poemsof observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanksembrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable imagesfrom one hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every stalk and leaf in a fieldeven as she reminds us, after Emerson, that "the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact."What was most wonderful?The sea, and its wide shoulders;the sea and its triangles;the sea lying back on its long athlete's spine.What did you think was happening?The green breast of the hummingbird;the eye of the pond;the wet face of the lily;the bright, puckered knee of the broken oak;the red tulip of the fox's mouth;the up-swing, the down-pour, the frayed sleeve of the first snowso the gods shake us from our sleep.from "Gratitude"[via]-
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poemsby Mary OliverISBN 0156001209 (0-15-600120-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems'Book summary:Wherein the poet continues her literary program with much the same sort of excellent poems about nature, the connection between the natural and the physical, and the tug-of-war between the familiar and the mysterious. I Found A Dead Fox, seemingly influenced by William Carlos Williams, gives one a good sense of the imagery in this fine collection. Oliver writes: "I found a dead fox / beside the gravel road,/ curled up inside the big/ iron wheel/ of an old tractor." Toads, mockingbirds, and afternoons of chopping wood fill these pages, as do beautiful, provocative images. Highly recommended. [via]
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