Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

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The beautiful world of Mary Oliver in our hands! Although no longer alive, Mary Oliver’s words are exactly that—life. In reading these selections, we can hear her voice telling us, showing us and, at times, goading us to embrace the world around us. We are moved by her eye on the natural world and how it affects our heart. What a gorgeous way to explore her poetry.

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” —The Washington Post

“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” —Chicago Tribune

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 Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780399563263
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/10/2020
Pages: 480
Sales rank: 6,692
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.

Read an Excerpt

AT BLACKWATER POND

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain.
I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering
oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

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