Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl and ten poems original to this volume. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, “Owls,” selected for the Best American Essays series, and “Bird,” one that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre.
Photographs
 – Molly Malone Cook and Mary Oliver. Photo by Barbara Savage Cheresh, from Our World (Beacon Press, 2007). |
Praise
“Mary Oliver’s poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeding, and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight.”
—May Swenson