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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems."Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whispe ...Show more
New and Selected Poems Volume One by Mary Oliver
18.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 first eig ...Show more
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver
31.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape- New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a ...Show more
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original to this v ...Show more
Thirst by Mary Oliver
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 loving an ...Show more
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on ...Show more
Upstream - Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, be ...Show more
What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
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Category: Poetry
For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may only now be discovering her work, What Do We Know will be a revelation and, in the words of Stanley Kunitz, "a blessing." These forty poems--of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, o ...Show more
Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 ...Show more