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Blue Pastures

Blue Pastures( )
Author: Oliver, Mary
ISBN:978-0-15-100190-3
Publication Date:Nov 1995
Publisher:Harcourt
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $58.00
Book Description:

"A gathering of gorgeous short pieces" (Library Journal), Blue Pastures collects fifteen of Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver's prose works about nature, writing, and herself.

"This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft."--Library Journal

With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises...
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Book Details
Pages:136
Detailed Subjects: Psychology / Creative Ability
Literary Collections / Essays
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 21.59 x 1.524 cm
Book Weight:0.505 Kilograms
Author Biography
Oliver, Mary (Author)
Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 1935. She attended Ohio State University and Vassar College, but did not receive a degree. Her first collection of poems, No Voyage and Other Poems, was published in 1963. She wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry including The River Styx, Ohio; The Leaf and the Cloud; Evidence; Blue Horses; and Felicity. She received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, the Christopher Award and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light, and the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems.

Her books of prose include A Poetry Handbook, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse, and Long Life: Essays and Other Writings. She held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College from 1995 to 2001. She died on January 17, 2019 at the age of 83.

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