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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.
Mary Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. Oliver on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland. [1] Her father was a social studies teacher and athletics coach in the Cleveland public schools.
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The first, New and Selected Poems: Volume One, was released in 1992 through Beacon Press. A second, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver , was published in 2017 through Penguin Press. Reviews for both collections were positive and the books received praise from Stephen Dobyns of The New York Times Book Review , Rita Dove , of The ...
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Mr. James Wright reading a poem of his. Biography and critical commentary at Modern American Poetry Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Peter A. Stitt (Summer 1975). "James Wright, The Art of Poetry No. 19". The Paris Review. Summer 1975 (62).
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As a soloist she performs as much composed as improvised music, giving first performances of works by, for example, Richard Barrett, John Cage, Chaya Czernowin, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Liza Lim, George E. Lewis and Richard Teitelbaum. [1] [4] Oliver is a member of the Nieuw Ensemble, SONOR and KIVA, as well as the ICP-Orchestra. [4] [5]