Mary Oliver (1) (1935–2019)
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Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 1935. She attended Ohio State University and Vassar College, but did not receive a degree. Her first collection of poems, No Voyage and Other Poems, was published in 1963. She wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry including The River Styx, vis mere Ohio; The Leaf and the Cloud; Evidence; Blue Horses; and Felicity. She received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, the Christopher Award and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light, and the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems. Her books of prose include A Poetry Handbook, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse, and Long Life: Essays and Other Writings. She held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College from 1995 to 2001. She died on January 17, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Mary Oliver in 2010.
Serier
Værker af Mary Oliver
A Mary Oliver Collection: A Thousand Mornings, Dog Songs, Blue Horses, and Felicity (2020) 7 eksemplarer
The Journey 2 eksemplarer
Sleeping in the Forest 1 eksemplar
Mockingbirds 1 eksemplar
Singapore 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 832 eksemplarer
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 753 eksemplarer
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 124 eksemplarer
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Necessary Light: poems by Patricia Fargnoli (Swenson Poetry Award) (1999) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 17 eksemplarer
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Oliver, Mary
- Juridisk navn
- Oliver, Mary Jane
- Fødselsdato
- 1935-09-10
- Dødsdag
- 2019-01-17
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Dødssted
- Hobe Sound, Florida, USA
- Dødsårsag
- lymphoma
- Bopæl
- Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Bennington, Vermont, USA
Florida, USA
Maple Heights, Ohio, USA - Uddannelse
- Ohio State University
Vassar College - Erhverv
- secretary
professor
poet
writer
editor - Relationer
- Cook, Molly Malone (partner)
- Organisationer
- Case Western Reserve University (teacher)
Bennington College (teacher) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1984)
National Book Award for Poetry (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1983)
New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence (1999)
Lannan Literary Award (Poetry, 1998)
L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award (1991) (vis alle 9)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Shelley Memorial Award (1969/1970)
Guggenheim Fellowship - Agent
- Steven Barclay Agency
Bill Reichblum (literary executor) - Kort biografi
- Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was born in Ohio and as a teenager lived briefly in the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, helping Millay's family sort through the poet's papers. She attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College, though she did not receive a degree.
Her first collection of poems, No Voyage, and Other Poems, was published in 1963. Since then, she has published numerous books, including New and Selected Poems (1992), which won the National Book Award, and American Primitive (1983), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.
"Mary Oliver's poetry is an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization," wrote one reviewer for the Harvard Review, "for too much flurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. She is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of our making."
Her many awards include the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award.
Mary Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College until 2001.
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"Oliver recuerda a todos los perros que la han acompañado a lo largo de los años dejando huella en ella. El amor por los animales y la belleza que reconoce en su libertad, son algunas de las imágenes que llenan de recuerdos y nostalgia estas páginas". (Descripción editorial).
Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it.
This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.
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Nature poetry doesn't always have the power (to me) of these poems. Often enough, I grow bored or annnoyed with it seemingly trying to do more than it does, or be more than it is. Pushing language too hard and erupting overtop what it's supposedly attempting. But Oliver's poems are something else, quiet and good and easy, but still with an awareness of the larger world even as she examines the simple forms, actions, and attentions described so beautifully here.
And of course there are the essays. When I come back to this work, I say I won't cry over a re-read of "Bird", and then of course I do indeed cry over a reread of "Bird." Perhaps one day I'll look up interviews or see what she's said more about this essay and the experience driving it, or perhaps I'll just reread it again and cry again with the imagining.
The poems here are gorgeous. And in a world so dark as it can be, sometimes the simplest glimpse of a bird, as in these pages, can mean everything.
Recommended.… (mere)