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Mary Oliver!
Poet Mary Oliver (born in Maple Heights, Ohio, in 1935) is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including American Primitive (winner of a Pulitzer Prize) New and Selected Poems (a National Book Award winner) and House of Light (winner of the Christopher Award and the L.L.Winship/PEN New England Award). Her most recent poetry collection, Evidence, was released in April, 2009.
'My work is loving the world,' Oliver tells us.
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Online Oliver Biography — from The Poetry Foundation
Cleveland Arts Cleveland Arts Prize: Literature, 1979 Mary Oliver Interview The Christian Science Monitor, 1992 Readings & Conversation, Mary Oliver From the Lannan Foundation, audiovisual The Land and Words of Mary Oliver Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown, from the New York Times, 2009 Mary Oliver from Ohioana Authors
Cleveland Arts Prize: Literature, 1979
The Christian Science Monitor, 1992
From the Lannan Foundation, audiovisual
Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown, from the New York Times, 2009
from Ohioana Authors
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American Primitive: Poems 1983 Winner of a Pulitzer Prize House of Light 1990 Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
This collection is drawn from previous books and also includes new poems, covering such topics as nature, writing, and art. Winner of the 1992 National Book Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1993
This collection presents thirty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself—along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since 1992. This graceful volume, designed to be paired with Volume One (above), includes new poems on birds, toads, flowers, insects, bodies of water, and the extraordinary experience of the everyday in our lives.
A new collection of forty-seven works features deep explorations of such themes as the mysteries of life, love, and death, in a volume that investigates clues that can be found in the natural world and offers insight into the writer's use of unadorned language.
A book-length poem that explores the issue of persistent and passing things.
Essays, verse, and prose poems that range in subject from Hawthorne to the travails of a goosefish stranded at low tide.
Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built— meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. She also offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops.
A collection of 61 poems that celebrates the many forms that love can take and bemoans the fate of the natural world.
These forty poems embrace the natural world, its unrepeatable moments, and its ceaseless cycles— Oliver's observations of the natural world, highlighting such subjects as a pod of dolphins and bees in a field.
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