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Mary Oliver

Biography

Mary Oliver

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.

Mary Oliver

Books by Mary Oliver

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver - Poetry, Poetry Collection

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. DEVOTIONS is a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last 50 years. Carefully curated, these 200+ 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.