MARY OLIVER, the author of more than 20 books of poetry and
prose, is one of America's most honored and popular poets, having
won both the Pulitzer Prize (for American Primitive),
and the National Book Award (for New and Selected Poems).
Stanley Kunitz said of her poetry: "It is fine and deep; it
reads like a blessing." Her most recent book of poetry, Thirst,
introduces a new direction in her writing, as she grapples with
grief after the death of her partner of more than 40 years.
Other works include Why I Wake Early, Blue Iris: Poems
and Essays, New and Selected Poems: Volume Two, and a CD
of Oliver reading her poems, At Blackwater Pond.
