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Devotions
The Selected Poems of
Mary Oliver
Published by Penguin
Books.
Published 2020.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0399563261
ISBN-13: 9780399563263
Description:
Now a Read With Jenna
Book Club Pick.
Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this
definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary
career.
“I love [Mary’s] work.
It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her
poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful.” – Jenna Bush Hager.
“No matter where one
starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” – The Washington Post.
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. 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.
