A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York Times recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet." Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28; No Voyage and Other Poems, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published many works of poetry and prose. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poet's sister Norma Millay. It was there, in the late '50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. For more than forty years, Cook and Oliver made their home together, largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cook's death in 2005. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. Oliver's essays have appeared in Best American Essays 1996, 1998, 2001; the Anchor Essay Annual 1998, as well as Orion, Onearth and other periodicals. Oliver was editor of Best American Essays 2009. Oliver's books on the craft of poetry, A Poetry Handbook and Rules for the Dance, are used widely in writing programs. She is an acclaimed reader and has read in practically every state as well as other countries. She has led workshops at various colleges and universities, and held residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Bucknell University, University of Cincinnati, and Sweet Briar College. From 1995, for five years, she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Art Institute of Boston (1998), Dartmouth College (2007) and Tufts University (2008). Oliver currently lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the inspiration for much of her work.
1 有用 野次馬 2024-05-21 15:26:32 浙江
上山散步时的良伴。辑四几篇鸟鸟文全书最佳,相比之下写艾默生、华兹华斯诸篇倒是翻觉寡淡。海伦古灵精怪如女巫,基默尔语重心长深深款款,Oliver则流露出淡淡的serenity,如她所言,「Attention is the beginning of devotion」。写Owl一篇,令人讶异于她是如何将美洲雕鸮和其他猫头鹰之间的差别表达得如此精准:「Athena's owl of wisdom and... 上山散步时的良伴。辑四几篇鸟鸟文全书最佳,相比之下写艾默生、华兹华斯诸篇倒是翻觉寡淡。海伦古灵精怪如女巫,基默尔语重心长深深款款,Oliver则流露出淡淡的serenity,如她所言,「Attention is the beginning of devotion」。写Owl一篇,令人讶异于她是如何将美洲雕鸮和其他猫头鹰之间的差别表达得如此精准:「Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.」 (展开)
0 有用 Adynamia 2021-12-08 07:53:21
Tender, observant, and at times insightful
2 有用 韦罗尼卡 2022-05-11 03:01:36
太美了,读到起鸡皮疙瘩,全程highlight。还有谁能把大蓝鹭比作贾科梅蒂的天使,我字穷词乏,只能五星推荐,给每一个爱自然的人。
0 有用 苇间疯 2022-05-06 22:53:58
有诗意,有灵性。Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are.
0 有用 Eno 2023-07-07 23:38:57 河南
not my type
1 有用 野次馬 2024-05-21 15:26:32 浙江
上山散步时的良伴。辑四几篇鸟鸟文全书最佳,相比之下写艾默生、华兹华斯诸篇倒是翻觉寡淡。海伦古灵精怪如女巫,基默尔语重心长深深款款,Oliver则流露出淡淡的serenity,如她所言,「Attention is the beginning of devotion」。写Owl一篇,令人讶异于她是如何将美洲雕鸮和其他猫头鹰之间的差别表达得如此精准:「Athena's owl of wisdom and... 上山散步时的良伴。辑四几篇鸟鸟文全书最佳,相比之下写艾默生、华兹华斯诸篇倒是翻觉寡淡。海伦古灵精怪如女巫,基默尔语重心长深深款款,Oliver则流露出淡淡的serenity,如她所言,「Attention is the beginning of devotion」。写Owl一篇,令人讶异于她是如何将美洲雕鸮和其他猫头鹰之间的差别表达得如此精准:「Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.」 (展开)
0 有用 yg_trece 2024-01-12 09:58:24 江苏
Soul-nourishing, mind-bending, thought-provoking and spellbinding🍃🌈🌧❄️
0 有用 Eno 2023-07-07 23:38:57 河南
not my type
2 有用 韦罗尼卡 2022-05-11 03:01:36
太美了,读到起鸡皮疙瘩,全程highlight。还有谁能把大蓝鹭比作贾科梅蒂的天使,我字穷词乏,只能五星推荐,给每一个爱自然的人。
0 有用 苇间疯 2022-05-06 22:53:58
有诗意,有灵性。Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are.