PagineMary Oliver wrote clear, attentive poems about walking in the woods and marshes near her home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and about how to live fully. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive and the National Book Award in 1992.
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American Primitive (1983), New and Selected Poems (1992), Thirst (2006), Devotions (2017).