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Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
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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.
Authors and artists draw on the symbolism of the World Soul to convey a sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world. This is evident in the works of poets like Mary Oliver, who often evoke the living essence of nature in their writings, [46] and in the visual arts, where the interplay of life and the cosmos is a recurring theme. [47]
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Cook and Mary Oliver lived together in Provincetown, Massachusetts, after first meeting at the former home of poet Edna St Vincent Millay in the late 1950s. [3] Oliver dedicated many works to Cook, and while accepting the National Book Award in 1992 she publicly thanked Cook, saying "Molly Malone Cook, the best reader anyone could have.
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 Washington Post , and Elizabeth Lund, also of The Washington Post, among others .