Showing posts with label Mary Oliver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Oliver. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Born on this day – Mary Oliver:


Mary Oliver


Writer

September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019


Credits:

Poems:

At Black River; August; Banyan; Beside the Waterfall; Breakage; Death at a Great Distance; Death at Wind River; Every Morning; Fall; Forty Years; The Hermit Crab; Hummingbirds; In Malaysia; The Kingfisher; The Mango; Morning Glories; The Moths; The Owl; Pilot Snake; Rain; The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First; The Shark; Singapore; The Son; Song for Autumn; Spring; THE STORM; This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty Pines; The Waterfall; What Is It?; White-Eyes.

Books:

A Poetry Handbook; A Thousand Mornings; American Primitive; At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver (audio cd); Blue Horses; Blue Iris: Poems and Essays; Blue Pastures; Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; Dog Songs; Dream Work; Evidence; Felicity; House of Light; Long Life: Essays and Other Writings; New and Selected Poems [volume one]; New and Selected Poems, volume two; No Voyage, and Other Poems; Our World with photographs by Molly Malone Cook; Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays; Provincetown; Red Bird; Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse; Sleeping in the Forest; Swan: Poems and Prose Poems; The Leaf and the Cloud; The Night Traveler; The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems; The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays; Thirst: Poems; Twelve Moons; Upstream: Selected Essays; West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems; What Do We Know; White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems; Why I Wake Early: New Poems; Wild geese: selected poems; Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Mary Oliver, on writing:


It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line.
I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

- Mary Oliver.