Red Bird by Mary Oliver

Red Bird by Mary Oliver

Red Bird includes Mary Oliver's first-ever cycle of love poems. As in all her books, there are poems on the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, but here her attention turns also, with ferocity, to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the downtrodden by the powerful.

Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determinationShe is among out finest poets, and still growing. -- Alicia Ostriker * The Nation *
These are life-enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the sublime from the subliminal. -- Sally Connolly * Poetry *

Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. She attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College, without receiving a degree. Her first collection of poems, No Voyage, and Other Poems, was published in 1963. She went on to publish more than fifteen collections of poetry, including five published by in the UK by Bloodaxe: Wild Geese: Selected Poems (2004), Thirst (2007), Red Bird (2008), Evidence (2009) and Swan (2011). Her New and Selected Poems (1992) won the National Book Award; House of Light (1990) won the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award; and she won a Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive (1983). She held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College until 2001, and lived for over forty years in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with her partner Molly Malone Cook, a photographer and gallery owner who acted as her literary agent. Following Cook's death in 2005, she lived mostly in Florida, where she died from cancer at the age of 83.

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ISBN 13	9781852248116
ISBN 10	1852248114
Title	Red Bird
Author	Mary Oliver
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Year published	2008-10-23
Number of pages	96
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