White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems - Softcover

Oliver, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156001209 ISBN 13: 9780156001205

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1994

Synopsis

Mary Oliver is one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the United States. In this much-awaited collection of forty poems - eighteen previously unpublished - she writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. Says James Dickey, "Mary Oliver works . . . a true spell, unlike any other poet's, the enchantment of the true maker."

About this title

About the Author:

A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence.

Synopsis:

Forty poems deal with the bonds between people and the natural world, the writing experience, and the importance of silence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0156001209
• ISBN 13: 9780156001205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72