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Mary Oliver on poetrybooks

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A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built—meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. She talks of iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how and why this should matter to anyone writing or reading poetry.

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Mary Oliver
1994
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope.

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Mary Oliver
1998
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House of Light: Poems

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.

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Mary Oliver
1992
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Felicity: Poems

"If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds.

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Mary Oliver
2017
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News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision of human history over the past several centuries.

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Robert Bly (editor)
2015
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American Primitive: Poems

Mary Oliver’s most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.

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Mary Oliver
1983
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Thirst: Poems

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet’s work.

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Mary Oliver
2007
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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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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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New and Selected Poems (Volume One)

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country.

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Mary Oliver
2004
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