Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

Beacon Press

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver's poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner's life.

Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, "Owls," selected for the Best American Essays series, and "Bird," a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre.

In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations."

For anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift; for those who love both, it will be essential reading.

This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.
Book Details
Publisher:
Beacon Press
ISBN:
9780807068755
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Mary Oliver
Published Date:
2006-04-01
Language:
English
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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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