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BY MARY OLIVER Evidence is a collection of forty-seven poems on all of Mary Oliver's classic themes. She writes perceptively about grief and mortality, love and nature, and the spiritual sustenance she draws from their gifts. Ever grateful for the bounty that is offered to us daily by the natural world, Oliver is attentive to the mysteries it imparts. The arresting beauty she finds in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's "embellishments" or the last hours of darkness permeates her poems.
Beacon 2010 88 PP. Paper
$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY MARY OLIVER 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. "Oliver's poetry is of the Earth, and about the Earth, and as these poems give voice to the planet, they render human life more beautiful, more sentient, more meaningful." -Karen McCarthy
Beacon Press 2007 178 PP. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
BY MARY OLIVER When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years 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?"
Beacon Press 2004 272 PP. Paper
$17.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY MOLLY MALONE COOK, TEXT BY MARY OLIVER Intertwined in art and life: the prose of Mary Oliver and the photographs of Molly Cook. Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. This book joins Cook's photographs with Oliver's prose-a uniquely intimate intertwining of their lives and art.Unmarked publishers remainder.
Beacon 2007 86 PP. Cloth
$7.95 (in stock)
BY MARY OLIVER A collection of 61 new poems, including a cycle of eleven linked love poems. The pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, but the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of theworld by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wideranging volume.
Beacon Press 2009 96 PP. Paper
$14.00 (in stock)
Poems And Prose Poems
BY MARY OLIVER "Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. Swan is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."
Beacon Press 2010 96 PP. Cloth
$20.70 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY MARY OLIVER 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, each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. This volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lillies, bears; on greeting the morning, watching deer, and, finally, on lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet at the height of her power, considering the everyday in our lives and finding reasons to marvel at all around her.
Beacon Press 2007 88 PP. Paper
Poems
BY MARY OLIVER In this latest collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, the marshlands and coastline of her Massachusetts home. Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, these poems explore the mysteries of our daily experience.
Penguin 2012 77 PP. Cloth
$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)
Poems And Essays Paperback
BY MARY OLIVER The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.
Beacon Press 2008 80 PP. Paper
New Poems
Beacon Press 2005 88 PP. Paper
Our World Molly Malone Cook, Mary Oliver
New And Selected Poems, Volume 1 Mary Oliver
The Truro Bear And Other Adventures Mary Oliver
New And Selected Poems, Volume 2 Mary Oliver
Thirst - Paperback Mary Oliver
Red Bird Mary Oliver
Why I Wake Early Mary Oliver