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.
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.