Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver

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Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver

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the selected poems of Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver

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• Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver

Publication

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

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• © 2017

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Includes index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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

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on1148214707

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22 cm

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xx, 455 pages

Isbn

9780399563263

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

u388275

System control number

(OCoLC)1148214707