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Mary Oliver US (1935 - 2019) Timeline Secular or Eclectic Poems by Mary Oliver Books - Links |
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
- Bone
- Can You Imagine?
- Five A.M. in the Pinewoods
- Halleluiah
- Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
- In Blackwater Woods
- Mindful
- Morning Poem
- Mysteries, Yes
- One
- Praying
- Spring
- Starlings in Winter
- Sunrise
- The Buddha's Last Instruction
- The Gift
- The Journey
- The Lark
- The Old Poets of China
- The Ponds
- The Summer Day
- Thirst
- This World
- What I Have Learned So Far
- What is There Beyond Knowing?
- When Death Comes
- Wild Geese
- Yes! No!
Recommended Books: Mary Oliver
Related Links
Mary Oliver Page
http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/lit/oliver.html
Several poems, links, a brief biography.
