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1	A Poetry Handbook more books like this by Mary Oliver With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built--meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a short space. see all copies from £8.54! new only from £8.54! \| first editions
2	Thirst more books like this by Mary Oliver This collection of 38 new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over 40 years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. see all copies from £6.90! new only from £6.94! \| first editions
3	Red Bird: Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver This collection of 61 new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of 11 linked love poems. see all copies from £9.82! new only from £9.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	New and Selected Poems: Volume One more books like this by Mary Oliver Here, as-yet-uncollected poems by the 1983 Pulitzer prize-winng poet open the collection, which proceeds backward through a 30-year selection of her verse. Incorporating both natural and domestic imagery, Oliver's even voice summons the spiritual into her own backyard. This volume was awarded the 1992 National Book Award. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £9.69! \| first editions
5	American Primitive more books like this by Mary Oliver The fifty poems in "American Primitive" make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitiave things of America - the wilderness that ... see all copies from £5.72! new only from £9.49! \| signed copies
6	Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays more books like this by Mary Oliver In this elegantly designed volume, Oliver collects 23 of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life--hawks, hummingbirds, kingfishers, swans, and, of course, the snowy owl. see all copies from £6.10! new only from £6.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 more books like this by Mary Oliver This collection presents 42 new poems--an entire volume in itself--along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has previously published. see all copies from £6.59! new only from £10.66! \| signed copies
8	Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, a Daughter's Return more books like this by Mary Ellen Geist, Oliver Sacks (Foreword by) Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've followed the "Daughter Track"--leaving a job to care for an aging parent--Geist offers emotional insight into one of the most difficult situations a son or daughter may face during his or her life. see all copies from £12.40! new only from £14.44!
9	Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse more books like this by Mary Oliver, Mary Cliver With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Mary Oliver shows what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas". see all copies from £8.20! new only from £8.20! \| first editions
10	New and Selected Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver Here, as-yet-uncollected poems by the 1983 Pulitzer prize-winng poet open the collection, which proceeds backward through a 30-year selection of her verse. Incorporating both natural and domestic imagery, Oliver's even voice summons the spiritual into her own backyard. This volume was awarded the 1992 National Book Award. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £72.39! \| first editions
11 view cover	Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver Nine essays and a small selection of poetry. Oliver writes about turtle eggs, swans, poetry, poets, and much more. Oliver is a previous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £7.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver This collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver deals with nature and with love--the ways they change and remain the same as time passes. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Blue Pastures more books like this by Mary Oliver see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Long Life: Essays and Other Writings more books like this by Mary Oliver see all copies from £6.14! new only from £7.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Dream Work more books like this by Mary Oliver Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness -- so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive -- continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in ... see all copies from £8.53! new only from £9.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Why I Wake Early: New Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver "Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of 47 poems."--Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, authors of "Spirituality Legacy." see all copies from £9.07! new only from £9.50!
17 view cover	At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver more books like this by Mary Oliver This first-ever recording of beloved poet Mary Oliver reading a selection of 40 poems comes with a 15-page booklet with an original essay, photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full list of the poems and their sources. 1 CD. see all copies from £12.95! new only from £12.95!
18 view cover	Our World more books like this by Molly Malone Cook (Photographer), Mary Oliver (Text by) The prose of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Oliver and the photographs of Cook are joined together to reveal the uniquely intimate intertwining of the artists personal lives as well as their art. see all copies from £11.76! new only from £15.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays more books like this by Mary Oliver A companion volume to "Owls and Other Fantasies" and "Blue Iris," this collection of new poems and beloved classics about creatures of all sorts completes the three-volume series of Oliver's works. see all copies from £13.65! new only from £14.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Cries of the Spirit: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry more books like this by Marilyn Sewell (Editor), Mary Oliver (Contributions by), Margaret Atwood (Contributions by) The 300-plus poems collected here each investiges the spirituality experienced by women. Contributors include, among others, Margaret Atwood, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forché, Tess Gallagher, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, and Anne Sexton. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £7.52!
21 view cover	Blue Iris more books like this by Mary Oliver Elegantly illustrated, this follow-up collection to "Owls and Other Fantasies" brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Oliver's favorite poems, and two previously unpublished essays that capture the "true enchantment" of flowers, weeds, plants, and trees and their magnetic hold. see all copies from £6.18! new only from £9.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	Twelve Moons more books like this by Mary Oliver see all copies from £7.17! new only from £8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems more books like this by Mary Oliver Oliver's first collection since she won the 1993 National Book Award takes for its subjects the bonds between people and the natural world, the delight of writing, and the value of silence. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £7.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	House of Light more books like this by Mary Oliver Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award and of the 1991 "Boston Globe" Lawrence L. Winship Book Award. see all copies from £6.15! new only from £9.50!
25 view cover	A Dream of Summer: Poems for a Sensuous Season more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Mary Oliver (Introduction by) A Dream of Summer collects some forty evocative poems by English-language writers on the experience and joy of summertime. Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings of all things summer, this volume focuses on the sensuality of summertime and the varieties of summer experience. It is a love letter to the sultry heat, crashing thunderstorms, ... see all copies from £6.27! new only from £6.31! \| first editions

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