Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for American Primitive, and her poems continue to delight a wide and ever-growing audience. Now, in New and Selected Poems, Oliver makes a representative collection of her work over the past twenty-seven years available for the first time. This volume includes thirty new poems as well as selections from her eight previously published 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…
Mary Oliver
The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver’s visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitive things of America—the wilderness that survives both within our bodies and outside— “…the cords / of my body stretching / and singing in the / heaven of appetite.”
