Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver ( born September 10, 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio ) is an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Mary Oliver was born as the daughter of Edward and Helen Oliver in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. She attended the mid-50s, the Ohio State University and Vassar College broke the training but not finish off.

In the 1980s, Mary Oliver taught at Case Western Reserve University. In 1984 she won the Pulitzer Prize with her ​​collection of poetry American Primitive. In 1986 she went to Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, where she was awarded with the title " Poet in Residence ".

In 1991, she took the " Margaret Banister Writer in Residence " scholarship at Sweetbriar Collage true in Virginia.

Mary Oliver currently lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Mary Oliver's work is based on their memories of Ohio and her life in New England. It was heavily influenced by the U.S. writers Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, as well as Edna St. Vincent Millay. As a teenager, she lived for a time in Millays home to help her sister Norma in the sighting and order of Millays literary legacy.

Awards

Work

  • No Voyage, and Other Poems (1963 )
  • The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems (1972 )
  • The Night Traveler ( 1978)
  • Twelve Moons (1978 )
  • Sleeping in the Forest (1979 )
  • American Primitive (1983 )
  • Dream Work (1986 )
  • Provincetown ( 1987)
  • House of Light (1990 )
  • New and Selected Poems (1992 )
  • A Poetry Handbook ( 1994)
  • White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems (1994 )
  • Pastures blue (1995)
  • West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (1997)
  • Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse (1998)
  • Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (1999)
  • The Leaf and the Cloud ( 2000)
  • What Do We Know (2002)
  • Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays (2003)
  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems (2004)
  • Blue Iris: Poems and Essays (2004)
  • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings (2004)
  • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (2005)
  • Thirst: Poems (2006)
  • Our World (2007)
  • Red Bird ( 2008)
  • Evidence ( 2009)
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