Mary Oliver Books
Blue Pastures
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With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ("the brother I did not have") an...
Read MoreA Poetry Handbook
By Mary Oliver
From a review by Publishers Weekly: National Book Award winner Oliver ( New and Selected Poems ) delivers with uncommon concision and good sense that paradoxical thing: a prose guide to writing poe...
Read MoreThe leaf and the cloud
By Mary Oliver
"A book-length poem in seven parts. Mary Oliver has fashioned this unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists."--...
Read MoreRules for the dance
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For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance," in the case of this brief and luminous...
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