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The Way Under the Way

By Mark Nepo
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This poem by Mark Nepo celebrates the abundance of imperfection.

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Why I Wake Early: New Poems

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness.

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Mary Oliver
2005
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Dog Songs: Poems

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work.

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Mary Oliver
2015
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Mary Oliver
2013
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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.

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Mary Oliver
2020
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To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota

“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you…” This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III's newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to...

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Joseph M. Marshall III
2010
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Leavings: Poems

No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.

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Wendell Berry
2011
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A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

More than thirty-five years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, when the weather allowed, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks sometimes yielded poems.

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Wendell Berry
2017
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This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials.

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Wendell Berry
2014
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems

In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post).

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Alice Walker
2004
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Where Many Rivers Meet

This is David Whyte’s second book of poetry, now in its 6th printing.

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David Whyte
1990
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