Oliver’s poems remind me that we are bigger and more connected than we might at first think, and that poetry can be a path and doorway to remembering our wholeness, to coming out of silence into a larger world, outside of our scars, full of wonder. In her latest collection, Evidence, Mary Oliver delves even deeper than she has in the past into the mysteries of life, love and death. Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl and ten poems original to this volume. presents a new kind of Romanticism that refuses to acknowledge boundaries between nature and the observing self. Mary Oliver’s willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.

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Her other best-loved poems include “A Dream of Trees,” “The Journey,” “The Summer Day,” and “When Death Comes. Exploring the evidence presented to us daily by the natural world, Oliver offers poems of arresting beauty and insight, inspired by Wordsworth’s lines: ‘To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. The volume contains poems from eight of Oliver’s previous volumes as well as previously unpublished, newer work. She said she once found herself walking in the woods with no pen and later hid pencils in the trees so she would never be stuck in that place again.Not the insipid inspiration of Hallmark movies and motivational platitudes, not the fleeting sort of inspiration often synonymous with cheerfulness or excitement, but the hard-won (and therefore more meaningful) inspiration that comes when we accept the task ahead of us for what it is, or emerge from a shadowy period of testing into the light of new revelation. Then I read the 2011 interview with Maria Shriver in O Magazine, in which Mary Oliver said that she’d been sexually abused as a child. Mary Oliver's willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice. According to Bruce Bennetin the New York Times Book Review, American Primitive,“insists on the primacy of the physical.

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This entire anthology is visceral; rawness and grace combining in a fever dream of feeling, with poised perfection and lyrical beauty in abundance. Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote Maxine Kumin in the Women’s Review of Books,“particularly to its lesser-known aspects. These two beauty-hunters curate content that will move you, make you think, and remind you what it means to be human.

Her famous poems are famous because they’re lifelines for so many: from her advice to listen to one’ own voice and “to save/ the only life that you could/ save,” despite whatever family ties might be holding one back in “They Journey” to her question at the end of “The Summer Day,” “tell, what is is that you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life? Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit-to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

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Holly Prado of the Los Angeles Times Book Review also applauded Oliver’s original voice, writing that American Primitive“touches a vitality in the familiar that invests it with a fresh intensity. The abuse shows up most clearly in Dream Work, the book she wrote after winning the Pulitzer Prize . In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. As the Miami Herald said: "The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable. and also that it was the first time she’d said that aloud in an interview: “When you’re sexually abused, there’s a lot of damage—that’s the first time I’ve ever said that out loud.Packed with the rhythm of free-verse form, intricately conjoined lines, and occasional pauses make this piece a liberating read.