New and Selected Poems, Volume One, (Paperback)

Name: New and Selected Poems, Volume One, (Paperback)
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One, (Paperback)New and Selected Poems Volume One Paperback 9780807068779

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Award-Winning Collection: This volume was awarded the National Book Award, establishing it as a significant work in contemporary poetry.
Bestselling Poetry: Since its initial publication, it has become one of the country's best-selling poetry collections.
Comprehensive Content: The book includes thirty new poems exclusive to this volume, alongside selections from the author's first eight books.
Thematic Focus: Mary Oliver's poems explore the natural landscape and fundamental questions of life and death with perceptive and brilliantly crafted language.
Inspirational Perspective: The poetry encourages readers to find the extraordinary in everyday life and recognize the profound connection between individuals, living things, and the natural world.
Publication Details: This paperback edition was published on April 15, 2004, by Beacon Press, featuring 272 pages.

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Pub date
20040415
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272
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Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.

Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness, /and that happiness, /when it's done right, /is a kind of holiness, /palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

Publishers Weekly,Following by 13 years her National Book Award-winning New and Selected Volume One, this big and very quotable collection offers more of what Oliver's fans revere: optimistic, clear and lyrical explorations of varying ecosystems, (especially the birds, mammals, ponds and forests of the northeastern U.S.) mingled with rapt self-questioning, consolation and spiritual claims some might call prayers. One of the 42 new poems watches ravens on a "morning of green tenderness and/ rain"; others describe a mockingbird, a white heron, an obedient dog, tiger lilies, deer, terns, blueberry fields on Cape Cod (where Oliver lives) and a "Mountain Lion on East Hill Road," glimpsed just "once, years ago." Poems reprinted from six earlier books (beginning with 1994's White Pine) broaden the focus to insect life, to weather and the seasons ("I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky") and to other parts of the U.S.; while most poems use a mellifluous free verse, some choose the simplicities of prose, a form best achieved in Winter Hours (1999). (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Genre

Literature & Fiction

Pub date

20040415

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