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In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive, which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. [1] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to make a statement about human experience. [2]
Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
1969/70 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. [6] 1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship [6] 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive [8] 1991 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light [22] 1992 National Book Award for Poetry for New and Selected Poems [9] 1998 Lannan Literary Award for poetry [6]
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The poem belongs among Roethke's series of "Greenhouse Poems" the first section of The Lost Son, a sequence hailed as "one of the permanent achievements of modern poetry" [1] and marked as the point of Roethke's metamorphosis from a minor poet into one of "the first importance", [2] into the poet James Dickey would regard among the greatest of ...
Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.