Devotions

A New York Times bestseller, selected as Oprah's "Books That Help Me" for Oprah's Book Club. No matter where you start reading, "Devotions" offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to excerpts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning "American Primitive" and "Dream Work," one of her extraordinary collections. Perhaps more importantly, the radiant writing provides a respite from our crazy world and shows how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best works in this definitive collection, encompassing more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verses, expressing her love for the physical world and the powerful connections between all living beings. Identified as "by far the best-selling poet in the country," she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writings from the past fifty years.

Carefully curated, this collection of over 200 poems includes Oliver's works from her very first poetry book, "No Voyage and Other Poems," published in 1963 at the age of 28, to her latest collection, "Felicity," published in 2015. This timeless work, assembled by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her finest. Within these pages, she offers us an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, insightful, and highly cherished observations of the natural world.