Oliver, Mary

A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.

Presents a comprehensive anthology of over one hundred poems written by American poet, Mary Oliver.

?In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.? So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature.

A collection of poems by Mary Oliver inspired by the marshland and coastline of her home, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

A collection of poems about dogs and their relationships with humans.

A collection of poetry written by Mary Oliver, exploring luminosity, along with love and death, the natural laws of the world, and other topics.

Examines the basic rules of scansion--the analysis of verse to show its meter; provides the author's thoughts on metrical prosody; and features a collection of metrical poems.

A collection of poems and prose poems focusing on flight, mortality, and the natural world.