Mary Oliver

New and Selected Poems, Volume One (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807097151
• Artikelnr.: 40020423

Autorenporträt

Mary Oliver (1935-2019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. She wrote over 30 volumes of poetry and prose, including Blue Iris, Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, two volumes of New and Selected Poems, and Devotions, as well as two essay collections, Long Life and Upstream.

Inhaltsangabe

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