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Oliver, the hugely popular poet, died Thursday. Readers turned to her work to find comfort. Here’s a selection of some of her best-known writing on loss and mourning.
Mary Oliver’s religion was simple. It could best be described as “ gratitude .” And so, as she departs this world leaving for us so many gifts, we offer this prayer for her—thank you.
In Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin), one of our most beloved writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts. Spanning more than 50 years and ...
On the same day that story published, Mary Oliver died. Oliver, whom the New Yorker called “America’s most beloved poet,” spent her life extolling the redeeming power of nature.
“Listen,” writes Mary Oliver, urging the reader to put aside questions and doubts as she describes terns wheeling over ocean waves, “maybe such devotion, in which one holds the world/ in the ...
As an "enormous Mary Oliver fan," Sophia Bush is celebrating National Poetry Month by narrating the new audiobook Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter ...
Mary Oliver grew up in Maple Heights, Ohio. She told the Globe she was one of two daughters whose father, Edward, was a teacher, and whose mother, Helen Vlasak, was a school secretary.
Mary Oliver’s gift was her ability to marvel at the world with an unsentimental acceptance that it (and we) are temporary. ... grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, ...