Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Written by: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin Press (October 10, 2017)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning the more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. During this time, she 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 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.