Devotions - Mary Oliver

Devotions

By Mary Oliver

  • Release Date: 2017-10-10
  • Genre: Poetry
Score: 4
4
From 47 Ratings

Description

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.

Reviews

  • Mary Oliver’s Devotions

    4
    By Tew312
    Oliver has a way of drawing the reader into her intimate relationship with the Flora an Fauna of the Nature she lives with in Provincetown and Florida. In these poems she shares the secret lives of grasshoppers, poppies, moles, mussels, owls, foxes and deer. While doing it she asks herself the ultimate questions of life. She tempts her readers to question their own lives, their relation to urban culture and the Nature they should love as much as she does. Her language is deceptively simple and straightforward. But it masks a depth of passion that drives her verse. Her Nature is fascinating. You’ll come to love it as much as she does.