Mary Oliver

La antología definitiva de una de las mejores poetas estadounidenses de los últimos tiempos, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award «Hoy, su obra es tan popular que suele ser recitada

Nuestro mundo muestra de una forma cercana, íntima y poética la relación de amor entre la poeta Mary Oliver y la fotógrafa Molly Malone Cook, a través de diarios, notas y poemas. Una ventana a la magia privada de un universo compartido repleto de palabras y de imagenes, guiado por la atencion al detalle y por el asombro ante lo cotidiano. Un libro sencillo y honesto que es un canto al amor, a la naturaleza y a la creacion.""Cada vez que llego a casa cada vez /alguien alli me ama. /Hasta entonces/ me detengo en la acostumbrada y negra paz/ como un pino cualquiera"Entre el asombro de recibir amor de amante y el de formar parte del mundo (amplio, brillante, animal) este libro es un homenaje a la intimidad de dos mujeres creadoras que se eligieron y vivieron juntas. Pero no solo, ademas de nombrar lo compartido, Mary Oliver toma cierta distancia para contar a Molly Malone en su sabiduria y su mirada distinta, gozando de su practica fotografica como una observadora que nunca se cansa de mirar".Sara Torres

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La antología definitiva de una de las mejores poetas estadounidenses de los últimos tiempos, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award«Hoy, su obra es tan popular que suele ser recitada

Mary Oliver, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award, es una de las voces más influyentes de la literatura contemporánea. Habitualmente remota y discreta, pasa al primer plano en esta bellisima miscelanea en la que todo cuanto aparece es cierto en el sentido mas autobiografico de la palabra. Son nueve ensayos repletos de recuerdos y experiencias personales, acompañados de una seleccion de poemas escritos en plena naturaleza y con la obligacion autoimpuesta de que reflejen una existencia vivida con pasion, paciencia e inteligencia. A traves de una mirada tan sobria como sagaz, Mary Oliver ve el mundo con una claridad que muy pocos poseen. Y asi nos ofrece la posibilidad de aprender a experimentar nuestras vidas con un fulgor propio de la mas misteriosa de las auroras.

Con la gracia, la belleza y la precisión que caracterizan toda su obra, Mary Oliver nos muestra en este libro que escribir «es una forma de alabar el mundo», y nos sugiere, de forma aparentemente sut

Mary Oliver invita al lector a liberarse de las cosas que pueden ser robadas para quedarse sólo con aquello que le pertenece para siempre. Felicity es una ventana abierta a la alegría, a lo salvaje del mundo y al alma humana, que reivindica la esperanza sin caer en la condescendencia o en la melancolia, una inspiracion unica para quien ama la vida.

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us.In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her lifes work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry and impermanence. Whether considering a birds nest, the seeming patience of oak trees or the paintings of Franz Marc, Mary Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments.Blue Horses asks what it truly means to belong to this world and to live in it attuned to all its changes. To be human, she shows us, is to sing your own song.

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 has published since "New and Selected Poems, Volume One."

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olivers 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. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labours of the spirit, to accepting the truth about ones personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Olivers classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.

An archival compendium of three complete works by Mary Oliver: the book-length poem The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, and essays from Long Lifewith a foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz. For the many admirers of Mary Olivers breathtaking poetry of touch and transcendence, as well as for those coming to her words for the first time, Little Alleluias is a revelation. These works observe, search, pause, astonish, and give thanks to both love and the natural world. In constant conversation with the sublime, (i.e. "Are you afraid? / Somewhere a thousand swans are flying / through winters worst storm."), Oliver has the rare skill of rendering life: her poems and essays bring movement to stillness, and people to the Earth, themselves, and each other. Page by page, she invites us to walk through her minutes, her moments, and revere the light and dark and rainbowed clothes of world alongside her. With three distinct books collected in one volume for the first time, Little Alleluias asks what passes and what persists, and offers readers the peace that every mind deserves. Hers is a purposeful language, one that looks not just with attention but with sensual intention, and though awestruck, seeks to hold, even briefly, the unknowns of the energies that make any life. Little alleluias, she called her writings. Not meant to define but to praise, to rejoice in the maker and what has been made, to dare be heard as a whisper or a shout in this immense world.Natalie Diaz, in her Foreword

A perfect introduction to Mary Olivers poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winners life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, Owls, selected for the Best American Essays series, and Bird, a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre.In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, Mary Olivers poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.For anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift; for those who love both, it will be essential reading.This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.

For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earths changes and its permanence.In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects ten new poems, two dozen of her poems written over the last two decades, and two previously unpublished essays on the beauty and wonder of plants. The poet considers roses, of course, as well as poppies and peonies; lilies and morning glories; the thick-bodied black oak and the fragrant white pine; the tall sunflower and the slender bean. James Dickey has said of her, "Far beneath the surface-flash of linguistic effect, Mary Oliver works her quiet and mysterious spell. It is a true spell, unlike any other poets, the enchantment of the true maker." In Blue Iris, she has captured with breathtaking clarity the true enchantment and mysterious spell of flowers and plants of all sorts and their magnetic hold on us.

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 lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

A breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human relationships . . . An eloquent celebration of simple joy from one of Americas most beloved poets. The Washington PostOlivers poems are thoroughly convincingas genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring. New York Times Book ReviewMary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in this collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Olivers love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describeswith joythe strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.

Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth, "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears," she uncovers the evidence presented to us daily by nature, in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbirds "embellishments," or the last hours of darkness.

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poets 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 loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

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 poets first eight books.Mary Olivers 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 its 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." Olivers passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.