A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me
Through" for Oprah's Book Club
"No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love,
from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer
Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her
exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing
provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness
can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem."
--The Washington Post
"It's as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us
to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration."
--Chicago Tribune
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of
her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five
decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless
readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for
the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things.
Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight
Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her
writing from the last fifty years.
Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her
very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in
1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity,
published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself,
showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she
provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her
passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural
world.
