Penguin Press, October 2017. Hardcover. Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick 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. "No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to..... More
Penguin Press, October 2013. Hardcover. "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..... More
Penguin Books, September 2025. Trade Paperback. "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" --Mary Oliver "The Summer Day" (House of Light) Mary Oliver's words guide us, with solace and empathy, across the rocky terrain of human existence. In House of Light..... More
Ecco Press, August 1994. Trade Paperback. "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles Times From the..... More
Ecco Press, July 1998. Trade Paperback. For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance, " in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound..... More
Penguin Books, September 2013. Trade 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..... More
Beacon Press, April 2005. Trade 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..... More
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