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New and Selected Poems, Volume One

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

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    About New and Selected Poems, Volume One

    Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet’s first eight books.

    Mary Oliver’s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. “Do you love this world?” she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. “Do you cherish your humble and silky life?” She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be “an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it’s done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive.” She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world “as if for the second time/the way it really is.” Oliver’s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

    About New and Selected Poems, Volume One

    When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet’s first eight books.

    Mary Oliver’s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. In “The Summer Day,” she asks, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” “Do you love this world?” she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. “Do you cherish your humble and silky life?” She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be “an invitation / to happiness, / and that happiness, / when it’s done right, / is a kind of holiness, / palpable and redemptive.” She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world “as if for the second time/the way it really is.” Oliver’s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

    About New and Selected Poems, Volume One

    When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet’s first eight books.

    Mary Oliver’s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. “Do you love this world?” she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. “Do you cherish your humble and silky life?” She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be “an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it’s done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive.” She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world “as if for the second time/the way it really is.” Oliver’s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

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    Swan
    Evidence
    The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
    Many Miles
    Our World
    See all books by Mary Oliver

    Also by Mary Oliver

    Swan
    Evidence
    The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
    Many Miles
    Our World
    See all books by Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Science & Technology

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Apr 15, 2004 | 272 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780807068779

    Category: Poetry | Science & Technology

    Hardcover | $32.50
    Published by Beacon Press
    Nov 15, 2005 | 272 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780807068786

    Category: Poetry | Science & Technology

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Nov 19, 2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780807097151

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    Praise

    One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver’s work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets . . . There is no complaint in Ms. Oliver’s poetry, no whining, but neither is there the sense that life is in any way easy . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward. -Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review

    “One would have to reach back perhaps to [John] Clare or [Christopher] Smart to safely cite a parallel to Oliver’s lyricism or radical purification and her unappeasable mania for signs and wonders.” -David Barber, Poetry

    “I have always thought of poems as my companions-and like companions, they accompany you wherever the journey (or the afternoon) might lead . . . My most recent companion has been Mary Oliver’s The Leaf and the Cloud . . . It’s a brilliant meditation, a walk through the natural world with one of our preeminent contemporary poets.” -Rita Dove, Washington Post

    “Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing.” -Alicia Ostriker, The Nation

    Table Of Contents

    New Poems
    (1991–1992)
    Rain
    Spring Azures
    When Death Comes
    Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957
    Her Grave
    Goldenrod
    The Waterfall
    Peonies
    This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty Pines
    Marengo
    Field Near Linden, Alabama
    Gannets
    Whelks
    Alligator Poem
    Hawk
    Goldfi nches
    Rice
    Poppies
    A Certain Sharpness in the Morning Air
    A Bitterness
    Morning
    Water Snake
    The Egret
    The Snowshoe Hare
    The Sun
    Winter
    Lonely, White Fields
    Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine
    White Flowers
    October

    From House of Light (1990)
    Some Questions You Might Ask
    Moccasin Flowers
    The Buddha’s Last Instruction
    Spring
    Singapore
    The Hermit Crab
    Lilies
    The Swan
    Indonesia
    Some Herons
    Five a.m. in the Pinewoods
    Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard
    The Kookaburras
    The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water
    Nature
    The Ponds
    The Summer Day
    Roses, Late Summer
    Maybe
    White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field

    From Dream Work (1986)
    Dogfish
    Morning Poem
    Rage
    Wild Geese
    Robert Schumann
    Starfish
    The Journey
    A Visitor
    Stanley Kunitz
    One or Two Things
    The Turtle
    Sunrise
    Two Kinds of Deliverance
    Landscape
    Acid
    The Moths
    1945–1985: Poem for the Anniversary
    The Sunflowers

    From American Primitive (1983)
    August
    Mushrooms
    Lightning
    Egrets
    First Snow
    Ghosts
    Vultures
    Rain in Ohio
    University Hospital, Boston
    Skunk Cabbage
    Blossom
    White Night
    The Fish
    Crossing the Swamp
    Humpbacks
    A Meeting
    The Sea
    Happiness
    Tecumseh
    In Blackwater Woods

    From Twelve Moons (1979)
    Sleeping in the Forest
    Mussels
    The Black Snake
    Spring
    Strawberry Moon
    The Truro Bear
    Entering the Kingdom
    Buck Moon—From the Field Guide to Insects
    Dreams
    The Lamps
    Bone Poem
    Aunt Leaf
    Hunter’s Moon— Eating the Bear
    Last Days
    The Black Walnut Tree
    Wolf Moon
    The Night Traveler

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