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She won the Christopher Award and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for her piece House of Light (1990), and New and Selected Poems (1992) won the National Book Award. [1] [9] Oliver's work turns towards nature for its inspiration and describes the sense of wonder it instilled in her. "When it's over," she says, "I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." ("When Death Comes" from New and Selected Poems (1992)) Her collections Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (1999), Why I Wake Early (2004), and New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2004) build the themes. The first and second parts of Leaf and the Cloud are featured in The Best American Poetry 1999 and 2000, [10] and her essays appear in Best American Essays 1996, 1998, and 2001. [6] Oliver was the editor of the 2009 edition of Best American Essays. Poetic identity [ edit ]

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a b c "Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Oprah.com . Retrieved November 30, 2018. Mary Oliver’s life is an example, and a lifeline, that will continue to show us that there just might be.

Oliver, Mary." American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present, Anne Becher, and Joseph Richey, Grey House Publishing, 2nd edition, 2008. Credo Reference. Then, she continues to describe a grasshopper, its tiny, little movements, and how it eats sugar out of her hands. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterized by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared to be the country's best-selling poet.

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Publishers Weekly, May 4, 1990, p. 62; August 10, 1992, p. 58; June 6, 1994, review of A Poetry Handbook, p. 62; October 31, 1994, review of White Pine, p. 54; August 7, 1995, review of Blue Pastures, p. 457; June 30, 1997, review of West Wind, p. 73; March 29, 1999, review of Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems, p. 100; August 28, 2000, review of The Leaf and the Cloud, p. 79; July 21, 2003, review of Owls and Other Fantasies, p. 188. It is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. Is poet Mary Oliver still alive? Relatable and serene, her poems are of nature. Of the human condition. Of love and loss and of hope.

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On a visit to Austerlitz in the late 1950s, Oliver met photographer Molly Malone Cook, who would become her partner for over forty years. [4] In Our World, a book of Cook's photos and journal excerpts Oliver compiled after Cook's death, Oliver writes, "I took one look [at Cook] and fell, hook and tumble." Cook was Oliver's literary agent. They made their home largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cook's death in 2005, and where Oliver continued to live [10] until relocating to Florida. [15] Of Provincetown, she recalled, "I too fell in love with the town, that marvelous convergence of land and water; Mediterranean light; fishermen who made their living by hard and difficult work from frighteningly small boats; and, both residents and sometime visitors, the many artists and writers.[...] M. and I decided to stay." [4] Parini, Jay (February 15, 2019). "Mary Oliver obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved February 18, 2019. Wild Geese,” one of Oliver’s most famous and most widely quoted poems, comes directly after “Rage” in Dream Work. “Tell me about despair, yours and I’ll tell you about mine.” she writes. When Oliver says despair, I feel it deep down.

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Oliver is an ecstatic poet in the vein of her idols, who include Shelley, Keats, and Whitman. She tends to use nature as a springboard to the sacred, which is the beating heart of her work. Indeed, a number of the poems in this collection are explicitly formed as prayers, albeit unconventional ones. Whose poetry does Mary Oliver read every day? Apart from these poems in our list of top 10 Mary Oliver tries, her other best-known poems include: Some of the poems left me feeling a little empty, with mild confusion, and they felt unfinished. I guess I was expecting a little more. This is definitely isn't the best poetry collection I've read, but there were a few gems in here, all the same. a b c d e f g h i j k Mary Oliver's bio at publisher Beacon Press (note that original link is dead; see version archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20090508075809/http://www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299; retrieved October 19, 2015). You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980. We must eat,” he says. Our gloomy
and passionate teacher.
Miles below
in the cold woods, with the mouse and the owl,
with the clearness of water sheeted and hidden,
with the reason for the wind forever a secret, In 2007 The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet." [14] Personal life [ edit ] Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 21, 1983, p. 9; February 22, 1987, p. 8; August 30, 1992, p. 6.