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American Primitive

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Mary Oliver's most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.
"American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." -- Stanley Kunitz
"These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." -- May Swenson

Book Details

Publisher:
Little, Brown Paperbacks
ISBN:
9780316650045
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Mary Oliver
Published Date:
1983-04-30
Language:
English

About Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. American Primitive (Little, Brown, 1983) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984, and New and Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1992) won the National Book Award. Her later books include Why I Wake Early (Beacon Press, 2004) and the essay collection Upstream (Penguin Press, 2016). She studied briefly at Ohio State University and Vassar College. For decades she lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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