by Mary Oliver
First published 2017
Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver personally selected over 200 poems from her fifty-year career for this comprehensive collection. The volume spans from her debut work No Voyage and Other Poems, published when she was 28 in 1963, through Felicity from 2015. Oliver arranged the selection herself, drawing from acclaimed collections including her Pulitzer-winning American Primitive and Dream Work. The poems celebrate her lifelong fascination with the natural world and explore the connections between all living creatures. Readers will find her beloved dog poems alongside meditative observations of landscapes and wildlife. Oliver transforms ordinary moments in nature into opportunities for mindfulness and reflection. The collection showcases her ability to find meaning in simple encounters with the physical world, offering readers a path toward greater awareness of their surroundings and themselves.
Genres: nature, literary-fiction, poetry, spirituality
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: meditative, reflective
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
456 pages · Hardcover · Penguin Press