In "The Summer Day," she asks, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from.
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