Selected Poems
€19.50
Few modern poets are as beloved or as quoted as Mary Oliver. Spanning the major decades of her long career, this collection showcases Oliver’s remarkable lyrical powers and her reverential attention to the natural world. Her poetry sees life everywhere and asks what to do with it – how can we find our place among such beauty, such pain? Populated by wading birds, early snowfalls, and swaying cornfields, her reflections are the record of a life spent walking alone in the wild. These timeless poems meet and touch their reader in any season of life, brightened by Oliver’s gift for amazement, shadowed by her constant awareness of harshness and death. Her words teach us to live with our eyes open wider.
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‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?’
One of America’s best loved poets, Mary Oliver is also among nature’s most brilliant and devoted observers, whose words ask us to live with our eyes open wider. This luminous selection brings together her best-known works from across her career.
‘Oliver’s poems are … as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring’ New York Times Book Review
‘Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing’ Stanley Kunitz
‘Just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment’ Oprah Winfrey
‘It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry. She’s speaking directly to you as a human being’ Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker
Additional information
| Weight | 0.349 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.8 × 2.8 cm |
| Book_author | Oliver, Mary |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint | Penguin Classics |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 608 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 811.54 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
