House of Light by Mary Oliver (English) Paperback Book

Description: House of Light by Mary Oliver Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This new collection of poems by Mary Oliver, who received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1984, once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life, fraught with common hardship and endless doubt, into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Publisher Description This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?-Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume)Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award Author Biography A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. TheNew York Timesrecently acknowledged Mary Oliver as "far and away, this countrys best-selling poet." Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28;No Voyage and Other Poems, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published many works of poetry and prose. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poets sister Norma Millay. It was there, in the late 50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. For more than forty years, Cook and Oliver made their home together, largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cooks death in 2005. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver has received numerous awards. Her fourth book,American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. Olivers essays have appeared inBest American Essays1996, 1998, 2001; the Anchor Essay Annual 1998, as well as Orion, Onearth and other periodicals. Oliver was editor ofBest American Essays2009. Olivers books on the craft of poetry,A Poetry HandbookandRules for the Dance, are used widely in writing programs. She is an acclaimed reader and has read in practically every state as well as other countries. She has led workshops at various colleges and universities, and held residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Bucknell University, University of Cincinnati, and Sweet Briar College. From 1995, for five years, she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Art Institute of Boston (1998), Dartmouth College (2007) and Tufts University (2008). Oliver currently lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the inspiration for much of her work.Beacon Press maintains a Mary Oliver website,maryoliver.beacon.org. You can also become a fan on Facebook at Details ISBN 080706811X ISBN-13 9780807068113 Title House of Light Author Mary Oliver Format Paperback Year 1992 Pages 96 Publisher Beacon Press GE_Item_ID:98062208; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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