Mary Oliver was an American poet who wrote mainly about the wonders ... control over what’s going on in the world is spreading. Gratitude, wherever we can find it, and intimate appreciation ...

“Listen,” writes Mary Oliver, urging the reader ... overwhelmingly these are poems of empathy, delight and awe, brimming with praise and gratitude for creation—for the dying goldenrod ...

They are full of wisdom and joy and deep loneliness and gratitude. As someone who loves challenging, genre-bending poetry, I also love the poems of Mary Oliver. Oliver was born in Ohio ...

Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature ... She wrote often of mortality, but with a spirit of gratitude and completion. In "Circles," she pronounced herself ...