Product Description

"Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems."—Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and Health

Praise for Owls and Other Fantasies:

"Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose about birds…all rendered with the precision of a line-drawing of a single feather that puts the entire wing into perspective."
—Orion

Praise for Mary Oliver's poetry:

"These are life enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the sublime from the subliminal."
—Sally Connolly, Poetry

"Mary Oliver's poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight."
—May Swenson

"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable"
—Miami Herald

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22013 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 71 pages

Review
"Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose about birds-all rendered with the precision of a line-drawing of a single feather that puts the entire wing into perspective." -Orion

About the Author
Mary Oliver has written more than ten volumes of poetry and prose and is one of America's best-selling and most honored poets, a winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, she is now on the faculty of Bennington College in Vermont.

Customer Reviews

Nature Poetry at its Best
I have already shared this book at my Book Club, at a women's retreat, and with friends. What a joy to read.

Read this and you love the mornings
I really don't know much about poetry, except that I like that it seems to be less fettered by rules. I like it for its rhythms and possibility and for its hope. A friend showed me a poem of Mary Oliver's this spring, This Morning I Watched the Deer, and I thought more people will read poetry if they are shown this poem.

why I wake early by mary oliver
this book is so lovely I only wish I had the means to give as a gift to all my most cherished friends. Mary Oliver has certainly given it to us. I lived 7 years in Provincetown, read clips in the newspaper and NEVER knew she also lived there...somewhere, tucked into a niche of beauty. Ms. Charley Stites