This collection brings together poetry from eight ... ""I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place"" writes Mary Oliver, ""Yet each has its own force."" Her Long Life: Essays ...

Mary Oliver is renowned and beloved for her evocative and precise rendering of the natural world, offering gorgeous as well as disturbing and brutal images. Her many books-27 at present count-are ...

American poet Mary Oliver gained many fans from her thought-provoking reflections on both life and nature. Some loathe poetry, while others love it. For us, though, poems provide wisdom ...

US poet Mary Oliver, who won both the Pulitzer ... of her education in an essay as "such a pre-established collection of certainties". Oliver's great love was the photographer Molly Malone Cook ...