Devotions: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
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he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three

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and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work

Irish Times

Devotions: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> T S Eliot I would then hand-write or'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem' The Washington Post 'It's as if the poet herself has