Mary Oliver, Author Beacon Press (MA) $28.5 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6818-2
This collection brings together poetry from eight of Oliver's previously published books and 30 new poems. In all of her work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive , Oliver, ``full of curiosity,'' writes about the natural world,...
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Mary Oliver. Penguin Press, $26 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59420-670-2
Distinguished, honored, prolific, popular, bestselling—adjectives that don’t always hang out together—describe Oliver’s body of work, nearly three dozen volumes of poetry and collections of prose. This group (19 essays, 16 from previous collections)
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Mary Oliver. Penguin Press, $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59420-676-4
“Only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one,” writes Pulitzer Prize–winner Oliver (Dog Songs) in a collection that serves as an ecopoetic, transcendentalist guidebook for the wandering soul. Replete with endearing adages...
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Mary Oliver. Penguin, $24.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59420-479-1
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Oliver (Dog Songs) remains among the bestselling poets in America, and this slim collection will sate her many fans: once again her clear, calm lines find pellucid guidance, wonder and cheer, and useful...
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Mary Oliver, Author Da Capo Press $22 (101p) ISBN 978-0-306-80995-8
""I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place"" writes Mary Oliver, ""Yet each has its own force."" Her Long Life: Essays and Other Writings intersperses a few verses among prose pieces as various as ""Dog Talk,"" ""Emerson: An...
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Mary Oliver, Author Da Capo Press $22 (72p) ISBN 978-0-306-80993-4
Oliver's seven-part book-length poem takes its title from Ruskin: ""Between the earth and man arose the leaf. Between the heaven and man came the cloud."" Oliver's speaker meditates on her own mortality, feels her body ""rising through the water/...
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Mary Oliver, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21 (63p) ISBN 978-0-395-85082-4
Oliver has made a career out of sharing her sense of awe, elation and gratitude before the natural world. In her ninth book of poems (White Pine, etc.), she's still hitting the same notes: ""Have I not stood, amazed, as I consider/ the perfection of
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Mary Oliver, Author . Beacon $22 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6868-7
Alternating poems, short essays and drawings of feathers, Oliver's 12th collection is strongest and most direct when using the first person to show the second a path to the good life: "You do not have to be good./ You do not have to walk on...
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Mary Oliver, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (55p) ISBN 978-0-15-100131-6
Balance means everything to Pulitzer Prize-winning Oliver (House of Light), and in this brief, evocative gathering of poetry and prose she continues to characterize and share her sense of balance, whether meaning a verbal equilibrium or an educated...
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Mary Oliver, Author Mariner Books $14.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-15-600215-8
For better and for worse, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Oliver is a Romantic--capital R. She is enamored of nature, not the cute nature of spring flowers/ prancing fawns but Edmund Burke's awe-ful nature, with its ``scream of the owl, which is not of...
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Mary Oliver, Author Mariner Books $14 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-672400-5
National Book Award winner Oliver ( New and Selected Poems ) delivers with uncommon concision and good sense that paradoxical thing: a prose guide to writing poetry. Her discussion may be of equal interest to poetry readers and beginning or...
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Mary Oliver, Author . Beacon $22 (71p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6896-0
Consoling, and intense interaction with the natural world abounds in the 43 poems of Pulitzer Prize–winner Oliver's new collection, as her many readers might expect. The trees whisper, a ribbon snake imparts lessons and the poet is likened
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Mary Oliver, Author . Beacon $24.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6886-1
Following by 13 years her National Book Award–winning New and Selected Volume One
, this big and very quotable collection offers more of what Oliver's fans revere: optimistic, clear and lyrical explorations of varying ecosystems, (especiall
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Mary Oliver, Author, Mary Oliver, Read by , read by the author. Beacon Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0700-6
For decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Oliver has written in praise of the natural world, searching nature for answers to questions about belonging, faith, love, life and death. She is a poet of empathy, but she lets no one off easy—her
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Mary Oliver, Author, Mary Cliver, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-395-85084-8
The usually remote and discreet Oliver, who has won the NBA and Pulitzer Prize for her poetry, comes to the autobiographical fore in this odd miscellany. The prose piece ""Sister Turtle"" tells of how Oliver, in an act of weird communion with a...
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