Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick
The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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- 7,49 €
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- 7,49 €
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver, from "The Summer Day"
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 love.” —The Washington Post
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This poetry compilation from acclaimed American poet Mary Oliver is an enchanting love letter to nature’s simple pleasures. Devotions draws together over 200 of Oliver’s most notable poems from the 1960s to the 2010s—and while Oliver’s wondrous poems about her experiences in nature feature prominently, she also broaches topics from God to the purpose of human existence and even the colonization of native land. With Oliver’s languid, flowing poetic style and her ability to convert the smallest details from the natural world into a lyrical object of beauty, the poems in Devotions will make you want to fill the book with sticky notes so you can return to it for inspiration or solace. You could even say it’s a how-to guide for life: Oliver’s pensive outlook on human mortality and her ability to appreciate the minutiae of everyday life are things we could learn from. Devotions truly is an essential text for nature lovers, poetry aficionados both casual and serious, and anyone who has ever mused about the meaning of life.
