A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying

Thousand Mornings (Oliver Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates morning, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected

A Thousand Mornings (Oliver Mary)(Pevná vazba)

'Her compact poems are conversational and teasing, yet their taproots reach deeply into the aquifers of religion, philosophy, and literature . . . Oliver is funny and renegade as she protests cultural vapidity, greed, violence, and environmental decimation and ravishing in her close readings of

Thirst (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Thirst, a collection of fortythree new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. ' Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring'

New and Selected Poems, Volume One (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

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

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

'Joy is not made to be a crumb,' writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be 'made out of the dust of stars,' we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver's tribute to 'the

Dream Work (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive continues in Dream Work

West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems 'thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.' In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time

House of Light (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?--Mary Oliver, 'The Summer Day' (one of the poems in this

Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

'On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read.' -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this

Dog Songs - Poems (Oliver Mary)(Pevná vazba)

New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she

Red Bird (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient

Why I Wake Early: New Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our

Dog Songs: Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

'The popularity of Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.' --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily

Dog Songs: Poems (Oliver Mary)(Pevná vazba)

A New York Times bestselling collection of new and favorite poems, celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet's world Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her

Our World (Oliver Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Felicity (Oliver Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates love, life and beauty in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected

Blue Horses (Oliver Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates the beauty of nature, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Chosen as one of Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club! 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

A Poetry Handbook (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built--meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. She talks of iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how and why this should matter to anyone writing or reading poetry

Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation (Housden Roger)(Pevná vazba)

'Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?' --Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and

Summer Evening (de la Mare Walter)(Paperback)

'As a revelation of the wonders of the English language, de la Mare's poems for children are quite unrivaled.' - W. H. Auden Part of a quintet of books revolved around the four seasons, this is a beautifully atmospheric picture book based around de la Mare's eight line poem. In Summer Evening,