Devotions

Mary Oliver

£30.00

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Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. ‘Devotions’ is a definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty years of writing – from Oliver’s very first book of poetry, ‘No Voyage and Other Poems’, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through to her last collection, ‘Felicity’, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best.

ISBN: 9781472158482 Category:

Description

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah’s ‘Books That Help Me Through’ for Oprah’s Book Club
Chosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation

‘No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver’s exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem’ The Washington Post

‘It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration’ Chicago Tribune

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty years of writing – from Oliver’s very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through to her last 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.

Additional information

Weight 0.77 kg
Dimensions 23.6 × 16 × 4.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

480

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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