Mary Oliver's Felicity (Penguin Press, $24.95), forthcoming next month, is a breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human ...

Some of the poems in "Dog Songs," a collection of previously published work by Mary Oliver ... excited, Oliver is devoted to her dogs and loves that they love her back. When she sits on the ...

From the time she published her first book of poetry in 1963, Mary Oliver served as a guide for ... It feels like the love of my mother.

“It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry,” Ruth Franklin ... and through that labor of love Mom and I found a new level of understanding ...

But reading Mary Oliver — like reading former Poet ... break from reality in order to find what’s real . Her poetry urges us to love nature for both its wild beauty and its brutality and ...

It turns out that accessibility in the poems of Mary Oliver can lead to encounters for the argument-weary that are like fire, like ropes, like necessary bread. Sometimes the neighbor we are given to ...

As someone who loves challenging, genre-bending poetry, I also love the poems of Mary Oliver. Oliver was born in Ohio, so I like to claim her as a fellow Ohio poet. She lived in Provincetown ...

[poetry] really invokes intersection and dreaming and a greater capacity for thought. Perhaps that is the reason I love Mary so much." When it comes to Oliver's work, Bush considers herself a fan ...