- Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times bestseller, POETRY / General
"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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Character-led, contemplative, earnest and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Mary Oliver
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 455
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399563263
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American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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