Selected Poems: 1965-2005

Mary Oliver (author)

One of America’s best loved poets, Mary Oliver is also among nature’s most brilliant and devoted observers, whose words ask us to live with our eyes open wider. This luminous selection brings together her best-known works from across her career.

Mary Oliver was born in rural Ohio in 1935. The author of more than 15 collections of poetry and essays, she is one of America’s best-selling poets. Among her many honours, she was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive (1983) and a National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One (1992). She received the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. For four decades, she lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her partner Molly Malone Cook, writing while walking outside with her notebook.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 30 July 2026
Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780241810187
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 350 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm