New and Selected Poems, Volume One
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.
Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. In "The Summer Day," she asks, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about…
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November 15, 2005
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