American Primitive - Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
Fifty early poems - primitive in the sense of wilderness, the special American wilderness, and themed on nature, and human yearning and love set in that primitive wilderness.

Back bay Books 1983 88 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Evidence

BY MARY OLIVER
Evidence is a collection of forty-seven new 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. Her newest volume is imbued through and through with that power of nature to, in Oliver's words, "excite the viewers toward sublime thought."

Beacon 2008 74 PP. Cloth

$23.00 (in stock)

New And Selected Poems, Volume 1

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

$16.00 (in stock)

New And Selected Poems, Volume 2

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)

Red Bird

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)

Thirst - Paperback

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

$14.00 (in stock)

The Truro Bear And Other Adventures

Poems And Essays

BY MARY OLIVER
"The Truro Bear and Other Adventures" 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 little dog, Percy.

Beacon Press 2008 80 PP. Paper

$23.00 (in stock)

Why I Wake Early

New Poems

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 2005 88 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)