Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

Book Overview

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

"No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. 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

"It's as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration." --Chicago Tribune

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399563245
• ISBN13: 9780399563249
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"

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