Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. 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. Do you love this world? she ...
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Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. 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. Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Do you cherish your humble and silky life? She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be an invitation/to happiness, /and that happiness, /when it's done right, /is a kind of holiness, /palpable and redemptive. She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world as if for the second time/the way it really is. Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.
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First edition, first printing. Signed by Mary Oliver on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Shirley, with good wishes, Mary Oliver. Los Angeles. Nov. 1992." Likely signed at her event at the Center Green Theatre on Nov. 10, 1992; program from that event (containing two additional poems) laid in. xii, 255, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, spine red a little sunned, light shelf wear. An excellent copy. The first volume of Mary Oliver's new and selected poems, which won the National Book Award in 1992. Rare signed.
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Fine. Mock-ups of the dust jacket and wrappers for the first hardcover and softcover editions. Illustration boards measuring approximately 23¼" x 12" and 15" x 13" with design elements laid down and heavily annotated glassine overlays taped along the topedge. A trifle worn from use, each of the overlays with a short tear, about fine, the hardcover mock-up possibly missing a spine element. Mock-ups for the first hardcover edition (featuring no notice of the award) and the first wrappered edition of Oliver's National Book Award-winning collection of poems. The overlays features color codes, noting and highlighting text and design elements, and the apparent approval (marked "K") for text on the rear of the jacket, featuring a blurb by Stephen Dobyns. Possibly unique.
I'm a huge Nature lover and adore the immediacy of Mary's impressions. Beautiful poems. I read them again and again. I often gift this book for weddings, bring it to sick friends, hospital visits, use it before meditating sometimes, copy the poems for gifts and cards. It's one of my most treasured poetry collections. Even if you're not a huge poetry person you may find these very accessible. The imagery is stunning. In my top 5 of modern literary works!
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