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Informationen zum Autor Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-three. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive , won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Oliver died in January 2019. Klappentext [insert the poem 'Wild Geese' - I can email you the snip of the poem as it is laid out in the book, if that would be helpful] WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things. Vorwort Devotions is the definitive collection of beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver's best work, chosen by the author herself from work spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Zusammenfassung Devotions is the definitive collection of beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver's best work, chosen by the author herself from work spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
