Oliver lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Mary Oliver, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, was acknowledged by the New York Times Book Review as 'far and away, this country's best-selling poet.' Her twenty books of poetry include Swan, The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, and Red Bird.

'I think of Oliver as a fierce, uncompromising lyricist, a loyalist of the marshes. Within each lifting lyric, Oliver declares all of life holy.' Gratitude is the mode here, and sustained attention is the vehicle. A prolific and cherished poet, makes readers feel as though they've been part of the quest for wisdom and grace she records in her lucid, giving, prayerful poems. 'Gloriously alive, inquisitive, and welcoming. All the usual Oliver themes-the divine in the physical world, the importance of having loved, the power and consolation of words-are present.' A subtle collection that sometimes teaches but never preaches. There is still almost audible excitement in her literary voice, but her nature mysticism seems to have reached a stage more of stillness-a quiet that is not so much a quality as a presence that informs most of her images. 'A ‘nature' poet in the league of Wordsworth, whose poetry is said to have inspired this volume. Notable works include American Primitive (1983), Evidence (2009), and Blue Horses (2015). Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth, 'To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears,' she uncovers the evidence presented to us daily by nature, in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's 'embellishments,' or the last hours of darkness. Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world.

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