Selected Poems

Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? One of America s best loved poets, Mary Oliver is also among nature s most brilliant and devoted observers, whose words ask us to live with our eyes open wider. This luminous selection brings together her best-known works from across her career. Oliver s poems are as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring New York Times Book Review Mary Oliver s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing Stanley Kunitz Just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment Oprah Winfrey It doesn t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver s poetry. She s speaking directly to you as a human being Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker