Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver’s tribute to “the mortal way” of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been “totally loyal.”
$23.00
March 27, 2012
A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York Times recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.” Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28; No Voyage and Other Poems, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published many works of poetry and prose.
As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar…
Many Miles
Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond
Mary Oliver
Swan
Mary Oliver
Evidence
Mary Oliver
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
Mary Oliver
Our World
Mary Oliver
Red Bird
Mary Oliver
Thirst
Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Mary Oliver
Blue Iris
Mary Oliver
Owls and Other Fantasies
Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver