Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pre
Keywords: work, dream
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0871130696
ISBN-13: 9780871130693

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness — so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive — continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit — to accepting the truth about one’s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: essays, poems, fantasies, owls
Number of Pages: 67
Published: 2006-04-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0807068756
ISBN-13: 9780807068755

Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, "Owls," selected for the Best American Essays series, and "Bird," a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre. In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, "Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it re

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: poems, prose, hours, winter
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2000-04-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0395850878
ISBN-13: 9780395850879

"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The Best American Essays 1998, another by The Anchor Essay Annual.) With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the sudden powerful flight of swans, of the "thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: poems, prose, pine
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1994-11-19
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156001209
ISBN-13: 9780156001205

In her first collection since the National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems, Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. "Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations."--Stanley Kunitz.

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: pastures, blue
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1995-11-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156002159
ISBN-13: 9780156002158

With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, has fashioned 15 luminous prose pieces, ten never before published, which should be of singular interest to lovers of nature, students of writing, and the many admirers of her work.

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: poems, prose, wind, west
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1998-04-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0395850851
ISBN-13: 9780395850855

The New York Times has called Oliver’s poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. To quote Library Journal: "From the chaos of the world, her poems distill what it means to be human and what is worthwhile about life."

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: poems, bird, red
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0807068926
ISBN-13: 9780807068922

“Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could.” So begins Mary Oliver’s twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: “For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work, / the soul has need of a body, / and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable / beauty of heaven / where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart.”This collection of sixt