NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA PICK • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary
Oliver a definitive and enduring collection of her best work “No matter where one starts
reading Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important the luminous writing
provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform
a life moment by moment poem by poem.”— The Washington Post Tell me what is it you plan
to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver from “The Summer Day”
Throughout her celebrated career Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly
crafted verse expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all
living things. Arranged by Oliver herself shortly before her death in 2019 Devotions features
Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry No Voyage and Other Poems published in 1963
at the age of twenty-eight through her last Felicity published in 2015. This timeless
volume 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.
