This Wild and Precious Life
A Journal
This Wild and Precious Life is a stunning journal featuring inspiring quotes from beloved poet Mary Oliver and delightful illustrations that illuminate her themes of wonder and nature.
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Simple, direct, and profoundly feeling, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her tender, accessible verse, expressing her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Her poems deftly weave close observations of nature with an evergreen state of wonder, and her essays about the craft of writing are remarkable for their intelligent yet comprehensive advice.
Oliver is a perennial touchstone for writers and nature lovers. Here for the first time is a journal that invites you to actively engage…
$22.99
March 5, 2024Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.
Instructions for Living
Mary Oliver
This Wild and Precious Life
Mary Oliver
Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick
Mary Oliver
A Mary Oliver Collection
Mary Oliver
Upstream
Mary Oliver
Felicity
Mary Oliver
Blue Horses
Mary Oliver
Dog Songs
Mary Oliver
A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver
Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne