James K. Baxter (1926-1972) is one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable poets, yet he has been too little regarded of outside his native New Zealand. In this innovative selection, Paul Millar, the expert on Baxter, gathers his most powerful and celebrated poems - political, lyrical and spiritu
Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver
β Scribed by Oliver, Mary
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0399563245
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"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. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015"--
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