Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. . With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and dis[...]

"Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just [...]

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chroni[...]

Mary Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the sudden powerful flight of swans, of the "thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else." She talks of her own poems and of some of her favorite poets: Poe, writing of our "inescapable destiny," Frost [...]

With contributions from some of the finest scholars in the discipline, Media Effects serves not only as a comprehensive reference volume for media effects study but also as an exceptional textbook for advanced courses in media effects. Covering the breadth of the media effects arena, this third edit[...]

Capturing the poet's consistent tone and lyrical beauty, this collection of poems takes readers deep into the heart of the poet's meditations on the natural world. Reprint.[...]

A volume of poetry by the acclaimed author of Owls and Other Fantasies features forty new poems that continue to express her fascination and love affair with the natural world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]

The followup collection to the author's National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems includes thirty-two new poems, as well as selections from six of the books she has written since her first volume of poetry appeared.[...]

Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, "Red Bird" comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient[...]