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Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935.

As a young writer, Mary Oliver was influenced by Edna St. Vincent Millay and, in fact, as a teenager briefly lived in the home of the recently deceased Millay, helping to organize Millay's papers.

Mary Oliver attended college at Ohio State University, and later at Vassar College.

Mary Oliver's poetry is deeply aware of the natural world, particularly the birds and trees and ponds of her adopted state of Massachusetts.

Her collection of poetry "American Primitive" won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984.

Poems by Mary Oliver

	Can You Imagine?
	Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
	In Blackwater Woods
	Mindful
	One
	Praying
	Spring
	Starlings in Winter
	Sunrise
	The Buddha's Last Instruction
	The Journey
	The Lark
	The Old Poets of China
	The Ponds
	This World
	What I Have Learned So Far
	When Death Comes
	Wild Geese
	Yes! No!

Recommended Books

	American Primitive, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Blue Iris: Poems and Essays, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Blue Pastures, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Dream Work, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God, by Thomas W. Mann Amazon.com
	House of Light, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Long Life: Essays and Other Writings, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	New and Selected Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	A Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Thirst: Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Thirst: Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com
	Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Mary Oliver Page http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/lit/oliver.html Several poems, links, a brief biography.

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