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”
Photographs
 – Molly Malone Cook and Mary Oliver. Photo by Barbara Savage Cheresh, from Our World (Beacon Press, 2007). |
Praise
“One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver’s work is the consistency of tone over this long period [of her career]. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets . . . There is no complaint in Ms. Oliver’s poetry, no whining, but neither is there the sense that life is in any way easy . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.”
—Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review