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New and Selected Poems, Volume One de Mary Oliver

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Autor Mary Oliver
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2004

Adresat deopotrivă studenților la litere, scriitorilor în formare și cititorilor care caută o ancoră în lumea naturală, acest volum reprezintă o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea evoluției poeziei americane contemporane. Considerăm că New and Selected Poems, Volume One nu este doar o simplă antologie, ci o hartă a maturizării artistice a lui Mary Oliver, marcând momentul în care rigoarea tehnică s-a unit cu o observație aproape mistică a naturii. Merită menționat că această ediție a fost distinsă cu National Book Award, confirmând valoarea celor treizeci de poeme noi care însoțesc selecția din primele opt volume ale autoarei. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Oliver evită abstractizarea, preferând să interpeleze direct cititorul despre valoarea vieții prin metafore concrete precum bujorii sau lumina solară. Cititorii familiarizați cu Why I Wake Early vor aprecia aici profunzimea istorică a selecției, observând cum precizia limbajului s-a rafinat de-a lungul deceniilor. Față de New and Selected Poems, Volume 2, care continuă această cronologie, primul volum oferă fundația tematică a întregii sale opere: legătura indisolubilă dintre individ și mediul înconjurător. Stilul este caracterizat de o claritate frapantă și un ritm deliberat, transformând lectura într-un exercițiu de prezență. Într-un context academic, volumul servește drept studiu de caz pentru poezia naturii, demonstrând cum observația empirică poate deveni limbaj liric fără a-și pierde acuratețea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807068779
ISBN-10: 0807068772
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:None.
Editura: Beacon Press
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum oricărui cititor care dorește să descopere de ce Mary Oliver a devenit o voce de referință. Veți câștiga o perspectivă reînnoită asupra cotidianului, învățând să vedeți „extraordinarul în obișnuit”. Este o investiție în propria liniște interioară și un ghid poetic despre cum să prețuim lumea vie, fiind considerată pe bună dreptate o piatră de temelie a literaturii ecologice moderne.

Despre autor

Mary Oliver a fost una dintre cele mai iubite și vândute figuri ale poeziei americane, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a conecta mintea conștientă cu emoția pură prin observația naturii. Opera sa vastă include titluri de referință precum Devotions și Dog Songs, dar și lucrări de proză tehnică precum A Poetry Handbook, unde explică mecanismele interne ale versului. Stabilită pentru mult timp în Provincetown, Massachusetts, Oliver și-a dedicat întreaga carieră explorării peisajului marin și terestru, primind numeroase distincții, inclusiv Premiul Pulitzer și National Book Award.

Descriere scurtă

When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.

Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

Recenzii

Praise for the poetry of Mary Oliver:

'One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets . . . There is no complaint in Ms. Oliver's poetry, no whining, but neither is there the sense that life is in any way easy . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.' -Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review

'Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.' -Stanley Kunitz

'One would have to reach back perhaps to [John] Clare or [Christopher] Smart to safely cite a parallel to Oliver's lyricism or radical purification and her unappeasable mania for signs and wonders.' -David Barber, Poetry

'I have always thought of poems as my companions-and like companions, they accompany you wherever the journey (or the afternoon) might lead . . . My most recent companion has been Mary Oliver's The Leaf and the Cloud . . . It's a brilliant meditation, a walk through the natural world with one of our preeminent contemporary poets.' -Rita Dove, Washington Post

Notă biografică

A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935–2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York Times recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.” Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28; No Voyage and Other Poems, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published twenty books of poetry and six books of prose. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poet’s sister Norma Millay. It was there, in the late ’50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. For more than forty years, Cook and Oliver made their home together, largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cook’s death in 2005. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. Oliver’s essays have appeared in Best American Essays 1996, 1998, 2001; the Anchor Essay Annual 1998, as well as Orion, Onearth and other periodicals. Oliver was editor of Best American Essays 2009. Oliver’s books on the craft of poetry, A Poetry Handbook and Rules for the Dance, are used widely in writing programs. She is an acclaimed reader and has read in practically every state as well as other countries. She has led workshops at various colleges and universities, and held residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Bucknell University, University of Cincinnati, and Sweet Briar College. From 1995, for five years, she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Art Institute of Boston (1998), Dartmouth College (2007) and Tufts University (2008).