Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A READ WITH JENNA PICK - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a definitive and enduring collection of her best work

"No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem."--The Washington Post

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
--Mary Oliver, from "The Summer Day"

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. Arranged by Oliver herself shortly before her death in 2019, Devotions features Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight, through her last, Felicity, published in 2015.

This timeless volume showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399563261
• ISBN13: 9780399563263
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

I am obsessed

This was my first introduction to Mary Oliver and I am hooked. It reads so naturally and is very spiritual for me. I have gotten 2 more Mary Oliver books and while they are also special this one stays out and off the bookshelf and is read nearly daily