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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Category: Non-Fiction
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably sh ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
"Mornings with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver"" "In "A THOUSAND MORNINGS, "Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Per ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Pe ...Show more
BLUE IRIS by OLIVER MARY
Category: Gift | Series: Poetry Ser.
For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and its permanence.In Blue Iris,Mary Oliver collects ten new poems, two do ...Show more
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in medita ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Category: Poetry & Plays
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...Show more
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Category: Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work. in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expoundi ...Show more
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding ...Show more
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
Dog Songs: Poems by Mary Oliver
Category: Gift
"The popularity of Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, ...Show more
Dream Work by Mary Oliver
Category: Fiction
Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, an "astonishing" book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive and "one of our very best poets" (New York Times Book Review) Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and ...Show more