Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet
Many Miles: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver
Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second CD from best-selling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-eight previously published poems and four as yet uncollected, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her classic nature writing, to her verses for her mischievous bichon Percy, to her ever-deepening spiritual poems. The CD comes in a handsome full-cloth package that includes a booklet with an introductory essay by the poet on the magical dynamic between speaker and listener; table of contents; text of the title poem; and a photo of the poet. Many Miles will be a most welcome addition to the collections of her readers.
Hear Mary Oliver read “Many Miles”
Praise
“Poems like ‘Some Questions You Might Ask,’ The Hermit Crab,’ ‘Wings,’ ‘Turtle,’ Roses, Late Summer’ take my breath away. What I feel is an immense gratitude that they are written, and that I can read them over and over. I think of Oliver as a fierce, uncompromising lyricist, a loyalist of the marshes. Hers is a voice we desperately need.”
—Maxine Kumin