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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

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"Her compact poems are conversational and teasing, yet their taproots reach deeply into the aquifers of religion, philosophy, and literature . . . Oliver is funny and renegade as she protests cultural vapidity, greed, violence, and environmental decimation and ravishing in her close readings of nature." —Booklist

"If you're one of the many, many fans of National Book Award- and Pulitzer-winning poet Mary Oliver, you'll very much welcome A Thousand Mornings." —Shelf Awareness

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Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (September 24, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143124056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143124054
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.02 x 0.27 x 7.72 inches

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A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York Times recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet." Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28; No Voyage and Other Poems, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published many works of poetry and prose. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poet's sister Norma Millay. It was there, in the late '50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. For more than forty years, Cook and Oliver made their home together, largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cook's death in 2005. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. Oliver's essays have appeared in Best American Essays 1996, 1998, 2001; the Anchor Essay Annual 1998, as well as Orion, Onearth and other periodicals. Oliver was editor of Best American Essays 2009. Oliver's books on the craft of poetry, A Poetry Handbook and Rules for the Dance, are used widely in writing programs. She is an acclaimed reader and has read in practically every state as well as other countries. She has led workshops at various colleges and universities, and held residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Bucknell University, University of Cincinnati, and Sweet Briar College. From 1995, for five years, she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Art Institute of Boston (1998), Dartmouth College (2007) and Tufts University (2008). Oliver currently lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the inspiration for much of her work.

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Lizzy White

The Most Re-Readable Poetry Collection

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2021

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My only complaint is that this book isn't longer. These poems are so gentle and thought provoking, and I just want to curl up with each and everyone and just sit with it. Oliver is a master, and A Thousand Mornings is definitely one of the best collections I've come across of her work.

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William

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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024

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Didn’t know I needed a good read. Makes you appreciate life for what is given. Thank you very much, Mary Oliver.

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Kathleen Thorn Randall

a long time ago - poetry

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024

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Poetry was a drug of my teen years. I haven’t read a book of poetry in decades. Not a book which is a collection of poems. I read poetry that I had to teach. It was hopping in rocks - I had to find one wide enough, flat enough, for me to be able to stand on it, and understand and react. My mind is generally a butter fly, a cricket, fluttering or leaping from thought to thought, rarely pausing or reflecting. I will find another stream, with some easy rocks. I will try again.

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Rachel

Lovely

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024

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A small collection of lovely, quiet poems about nature, faith, and the human heart. Mary Oliver was a truly gifted poet.

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James

It is Mary Oliver “focused.” I love it.

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024

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Each morning I read a poem and savor it. Ah ha’s and good beginnings abound.

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Kateri Ewing

One can never be lonely with a Mary Oliver book in one's hands.

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2012

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When I arrived home from the community Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday I noticed that I had not brought in my mail from Wednesday. I was feeling a little low, mostly from being tired and a bit from missing my family. When I opened the front door to retrieve my mail, I almost missed a slim cardboard box propped up against the house. A package from Amazon.com. Oh joy of joys! I had almost forgot that I had placed an order for Mary Oliver’s twenty-second book of poems, A Thousand Mornings. You cannot imagine my smile as I tore the box open and saw its cover.

One can never feel low or lonely when there is a book of Mary Oliver poems in one’s hands.

I knew I had plenty of work to finish that evening, but first things first. I opened a Flying Bison Blizzard Bock, ran a hot bath and settled in for a soak, sip and read.

It is an event in my life, when a new Mary Oliver book is published. In the past so many years I have celebrated the arrivals of Evidence, Thirst, Swan, and Red Bird. I have purchased at least five copies of her New and Selected Poems because I can’t help but give them away when I meet someone who has never heard of her before. And each time I receive a new title it is my constant companion for weeks upon weeks. If you find it strange that a book of poems can be a companion, then you have not met a Mary Oliver poem yet.

A Thousand Mornings is a slender volume, seventy-six pages, and yet how many hours of pleasure, contemplation and company it contains. When I read Oliver’s poems I am always transported to my own experiences. The places she unfolds in her work are so similar to my favourite places at the farm, the creatures I encounter, the plants and trees and insects, that I am immersed in that world but with an even closer view. Because this is what Mary does, illuminates the most intricate details of what she notices, and somehow brings a universal light to the profound human experience as well. Amazement. Awe. Wonder. Gratitude. Reverence. For all that lives, and also dies.

I have noticed over the past several books she has published that more and more she is slipping more personal, more intimate details of her own life within the words. Mary is notoriously private, rarely gives interviews, and has often spoke of how she keeps her private and personal life out of her work, at least in a confessional way. But in A Thousand Mornings there are several poems that are intimate to her life, much more so than in any of her other works. And yet there is still nothing confessional about them, only an expansive wisdom that never says, “this is the answer,” but instead leaves only questions in the reader’s mind. Questions and a sense of amazement for the world, and tremendous comfort. Mary Oliver is a poet who honours mystery. I find immeasurable comfort in that.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

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KMurphy

It's Mary Oliver

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024

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It's Mary Oliver, what else can I say. :)

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Maury

A wonderful set of poems by a wonderful poet

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022

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Mary Oliver is one of my most favorite poets. This collection is one of her finest.

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YD

Amazing nature poems

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2024

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Mary Oliver is simply a genius. Her ability to capture nature in her poems is pure delight. I read them over and over again.

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Braccy

Suprising

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2024

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I thought it was a novel.
It's a book of poems.
There are some really beautiful poems in it, thought provoking...
It is VERY enjoyable...

MDM

Books as Birthday Gift for a child!

Reviewed in India on February 18, 2022

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Book was liked by Child to whom presented.

Diego Laurentino de Carvalho

Apaixonante

Reviewed in Brazil on January 24, 2019

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Mary Oliver é um daqueles autores que através da sua obra nos faz cair de amores por suas paixôes. Talvez até mais do que seus poemas em si, os objetos aos quais Mary (a chamo assim pois é difícil não se sentir íntimo depois de todas essas manhãs em companhia da autora) dirige seu olhar encantado, como uma varinha de condão, se transformam de maneira esplêndida: pássaros pousados numa árvore, um jardineiro cuidando das flores, um mar "azul cinza verde lavanda". Sua poesia é um convite a ver um mundo que, como a autora reconhece, está deixando de existir. Mas que nada nos impede de tentar reconstruí-lo.
Uma pequena ressalva apenas ao material da capa, que por algum motivo, nessa edição, se arrebitou nas quatro pontas e deixou a mostra alguns traços de plástico, como se submetido ao calor. E isso logo nas primeiras semanas de comprado. Vamos procurar melhorar os materiais da capa, Penguin!

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Goncalves Rosemarie

Très bon produit !

Reviewed in France on December 9, 2019

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Je suis ravie, produit de très bonne qualité, arrivé vite, rien à redire !

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