Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick - Mary Oliver

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick

By Mary Oliver

  • Release Date: 2017-10-10
  • Genre: Poetry
4 Score: 4 (From 51 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

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.

“I love [Mary's] work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful.” –Jenna Bush Hager

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” —The Washington Post


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.

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  • Mary Oliver’s Devotions

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    By Tew312
    Oliver has a way of drawing the reader into her intimate relationship with the Flora an Fauna of the Nature she lives with in Provincetown and Florida. In these poems she shares the secret lives of grasshoppers, poppies, moles, mussels, owls, foxes and deer. While doing it she asks herself the ultimate questions of life. She tempts her readers to question their own lives, their relation to urban culture and the Nature they should love as much as she does. Her language is deceptively simple and straightforward. But it masks a depth of passion that drives her verse. Her Nature is fascinating. You’ll come to love it as much as she does.