Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

Author

Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

Summary: "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"--

Language: eng

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Publication

New York, Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020

Extent: xx, 455 pages

Note: Includes index

Contents

I know someone
From new and selected poems: volume two
Hum
Lead
Oxygen
White heron rises over Blackwater
Honey Locust
Song for autumn
Fireflies
The poet with his face in his hands
Wild, wild
That little beast
North country
Terns
The pond
I have just said
The gift
From blue horses
After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond
I don't want to be demure or respectable
Stebbin's gulch
Franz Marc's blue horses
From Felicity
On meditating, sort of
Loneliness
Do stones feel?
Drifting
Blueberries
The vulture's wings
What gorgeous thing
From dog songs
The storm
Percy (one)
I wake close to morning
Little dog's rhapsody in the night
(Percy three)
Percy (nine)
Benjamin, who came from who knows where
The dog has run off again
Bazougey
Her grave
The poetry teacher
The first time Percy came back
From a thousand mornings
This morning
I go down to the shore
I happened to be standing
Three things to remember
Lines written in the days of growing darkness
An old story
The instant
Tides
The poet compares human nature to the ocean from which we came
Life story
Varanasi
The world I live in
From swan
I worried
I own a house
Don't hesitate
Swan
Passing the unworked field
How I go to the woods
On the beach
From evidence
Violets
Whistling swans
We shake with joy
It was early
With thanks to the field sparrow, whose voice is so delicate and humble
A lesson from James Wright
Almost a conversation
To begin with, the sweet grass
Evidence
Prayer
Mysteries, yes
At the river Clarion
Storage
From the Truro bear and other adventures
The other kingdoms
The gift
Coyote in the dark, coyotes remembered
From red bird
Night herons
Mornings at Blackwater
The orchard
Sometimes
invitation
For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E.
From this river, when I was a child, I used to drink
We should be well prepared
Meadowlark sings and I greet him in return
Of the empire
Red
Night and the river
Self-portrait
With the blackest of Inks
From thirst
When I am among the trees
(1945-2014)
When the roses speak, I pay attention
Six recognitions of the Lord
Gethsemane
The poet thinks about the donkey
Praying
Doesn't every poet write a poem about unrequited love?
On thy wondrous works I will meditate
(Psalm 145)
The chat
Thirst
Spring at Blackwater: I go through the lessons already learned
One or two things
Morning poem
Wild geese
Shadows
The journey
Poem
Two kinds of deliverance
Black snakes
1945-1985: poem for the anniversary
The sunflowers
Mindful
From American primitive
August
The kitten
Moles
Clapp's pond
First snow
Ghosts
Skunk cabbage
The snakes
White night
Lingering in happiness
The fish
Humpbacks
A meeting
The roses
Blackberries
Tecumseh
In Blackwater woods
Daisies
Goldenrod, late fall
The old poets of China
Logos
Snow geese
At black river
Beans
From blue iris
The arrowhead
Where does the temple begin, where does it end?
From long life
Just as the calendar began to say summer
Can you imagine?
Softest of mornings
Carrying the snake to the garden
From owls and other fantasies
The dipper
Spring
Just lying on the grass at Blackwater
While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer, the meadowlark begins to sing
Catbird
Backyard
From what do we know?
Summer poem
The loon
Winter at Herring Cove
Mink
Blue iris
You are standing at the edge of the woods
Sea leaves
The roses
Stones
One hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day
From the leaf and the cloud
Flare
From the book of time
From west wind
Have you tried to enter the long black branches
Seven white butterflies
At round pond
Morning at Blackwater
Black oaks
Am I not among the early risers
Fox
From the poem "West Wind"
From white pine
May
Yes! No!
In Pobiddy, Georgia
Porcupine
Wrens
How would you live then?
Mockingbirds
I found a dead fox
Morning glories
August
Toad
I looked up
The sea mouse
From new and selected poems: volume one
The sun
Goldenrod
How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a god-tale
When death comes
Whelks
Goldfinches
Poppies
Water snake
White flowers
Peonies
The egret
Rice
Rain
From why I wake early
Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957
October
From house of light
Some questions you might ask
The Buddha's last instruction
The summer day
Spring
Little owl who lives in the orchard
The kookaburras
Roses, late summer
Why I wake early
White owl flies into and out of the field
Singapore
The hermit crab
The kingfisher
The swan
Turtle
The loon on Oak-Head pond
Five A.M. in the pinewoods
Some herons
From dream work
Entering the kingdom
The night traveler
Beaver moon-the suicide of a friend
Last days
The black snake
The Truro bear
Mussels
Snow moon-black bear gives birth
Strawberry moon
Pink moon-the pond
From three rivers poetry journal and "three poems for James Wright"
Aunt leaf
Farm country
The lamps
From the river Styx, Ohio
Learning about the Indians
Going to Walden
Night flight
From no voyage and other poems
No voyage
Jack
At Blackwater Pond
Beyond the snow belt
The swimming lesson
On winter's margin
The return
Morning in a new land
The rabbit
Three poems for James Wright
From twelve moons
Sleeping in the forest
Snakes in winter
Music lessons

Isbn: 9780399563263

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Label: Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver

Title: Devotions

Title remainder: the selected poems of Mary Oliver

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

Author

Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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Language: eng

Summary: "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"--

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