Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this
definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
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. This timeless volume arranged
by Oliver herself showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages she
provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate perceptive and
much-treasured observations of the natural world.
