New and Selected Poems, Volume One [Hardcover]

WhenNew and Selected Poems, Volume Onewas originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.

Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. In The Summer Day, she asks, Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life? Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Do you cherish your humble and silky life? She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be an invitation / to happiness, / and that happiness, / when it's done right, / is a kind of holiness, / palpable and redemptive. She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world as if for the second time/the way it really is. Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.New Poems
(1991–1992)
Rain
Spring Azures
When Death Comes
Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957
Her Grave
Goldenrod
The Waterfall
Peonies
This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty Pines
Marengo
Field Near Linden, Alabama
Gannets
Whelks
Alligator Poem
Hawk
Goldfi nches
Rice
Poppies
A Certain Sharpness in the Morning Air
A Bitterness
Morning
Water Snake
The Egret
The Snowshoe Hare
The Sun
Winter
Lonely, White Fields
Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine
White Flowers
October

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