A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver

2012 • 96 pages

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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

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Devin

Mary Oliver is one of those writers who has felt like an old friend to me from the moment I first opened one of her books. This collection of poems feels like a box of angels. It is rainwater seeping out from your cabinets, jungle trees growing out of abandoned skyscrapers. It's just so good. Please read.

May 19, 2017

melissa

Mary Oliver's poems are the closest there is in feeling to Haikus in the English language, so much beauty in such simplicity, and beautiful attention to detail. I just love the feeling i get reading her poems, i can feel nature through her words, and it's such a good way to relax.

October 22, 2018

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