Overview
«Hoy, su obra es tan popular que suele ser recitada en ceremonias de graduación, bodas, funerales, en una suerte de plegaria común que repite, una y otra vez, sus versos más conocidos, los que cierran su poema "El día de verano": “Decidme, ¿qué es lo que planeáis hacer con vuestra única, preciosa y salvaje vida?”». -Inés Martín Rodrigo, El Periódico de España
«Sus poemas son como pequeñas oraciones para sostener la angustia del vivir». -Sara Torres, El Periódico de España
A lo largo de su celebrada carrera, Mary Oliver ha conmovido a innumerables lectores con sus versos de brillante factura, en los que despliega su amor por la naturaleza y los poderosos lazos que unen a todos los seres vivos. Se trata de una poesía de la atención, que es, como ella misma sostuvo, el principio de la devoción.
Cuidadosamente seleccionados por la autora, estos poemas recogen lo mejor de una trayectoria de más de cinco décadas, que abarca, con su propuesta de lectura cronológicamente inversa, desde su último poemario, Alegría, publicado en 2015, hasta su primer libro de poesía, Ningún viaje y otros poemas, que vio la luz en 1963, cuando la poeta tenía veintiocho años. Estamos, pues, ante una antología definitiva de una de las poetas más idóneas y pertinentes para los retos espirituales del siglo XXI.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A “Read With Jenna” Book Club Pick
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
“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 sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” —Chicago Tribune
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.
Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.
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