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"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"--

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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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Oliver, M. (2017). Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver. New York, Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019. 2017. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. New York, Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. New York, Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.

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Oliver, Mary. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. New York, Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.

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50500|t From blue iris --|t Just lying on the grass at Blackwater --|t Sea leaves --|t Morning at Blackwater --|t How would you live then? --|t How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a god-tale --|t From why I wake early --|t Why I wake early --|t Spring at Blackwater: I go through the lessons already learned --|t Mindful --|t Lingering in happiness --|t Daisies --|t Goldenrod, late fall --|t The old poets of China --|t Logos --|t Snow geese --|t At black river --|t Beans --|t The arrowhead --|t Where does the temple begin, where does it end? --|t From long life --|t Just as the calendar began to say summer --|t Can you imagine? --|t Softest of mornings --|t Carrying the snake to the garden --|t From owls and other fantasies --|t The dipper --|t Spring --|t While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer, the meadowlark begins to sing --|t Catbird --|t Backyard --|t From what do we know? --|t Summer poem --|t The loon --|t Winter at Herring Cove --|t Mink --|t Blue iris --|t You are standing at the edge of the woods --|t The roses --|t Stones --|t One hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day --|t From the leaf and the cloud --|t Flare --|t From the book of time --|t From west wind --|t Have you tried to enter the long black branches --|t Seven white butterflies --|t At round pond --|t Black oaks --|t Am I not among the early risers --|t Fox --|t From the poem "West Wind" --|t From white pine --|t May --|t Yes! No! --|t In Pobiddy, Georgia --|t Porcupine --|t Wrens --|t Mockingbirds --|t I found a dead fox --|t Morning glories --|t August --|t Toad --|t I looked up --|t The sea mouse --|t From new and selected poems: volume one --|t The sun --|t Goldenrod --|t When death comes --|t Whelks --|t Goldfinches --|t Poppies --|t Water snake --|t White flowers --|t Peonies --|t The egret --|t Rice --|t Rain --|t Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 --|t October --|t From house of light --|t Some questions you might ask --|t The Buddha's last instruction --|t The summer day --|t Spring --|t Little owl who lives in the orchard --|t The kookaburras --|t Roses, late summer --|t White owl flies into and out of the field --|t Singapore --|t The hermit crab --|t The kingfisher --|t The swan --|t Turtle --|t The loon on Oak-Head pond --|t Five A.M. in the pinewoods --|t Some herons --|t From dream work --|t One or two things --|t Morning poem --|t Wild geese --|t Shadows --|t The journey --|t Poem --|t Two kinds of deliverance --|t Black snakes --|t 1945-1985: poem for the anniversary --|t The sunflowers --|t From American primitive --|t August --|t The kitten --|t Moles --|t Clapp's pond --|t First snow --|t Ghosts --|t Skunk cabbage --|t The snakes --|t White night --|t The fish --|t Humpbacks --|t A meeting --|t The roses --|t Blackberries --|t Tecumseh --|t In Blackwater woods
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