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Mary Oliver's own selection from a lifetime of poems about the natural world, attention, wonder and the discipline of noticing.
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The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Gitanjali
Song offerings of devotion, nature and the infinite, the collection that won Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize and introduced his work to readers in the West.
The Prophet
A departing sage offers parables on love, work, freedom, pain, and death to the people who have sheltered him for twelve years.
The Book of Hours
Prayers in the voice of a young monk addressing a God he imagines as unfinished and close at hand, the book that first made Rilke's name.
The Wild Iris
A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks's versions of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet, poems of divine love, longing and the dissolving of the self in the beloved.
Pilgrim Bell
Poems weighing doubt and belief, Islamic faith and American life, silence and prayer.
Death of a Naturalist
Heaney's first book of poems, out of a childhood on a farm in County Derry: digging, blackberries, frogspawn, the flax-dam and the churning day.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
All of Tranströmer's poems, half a century of short, luminous pieces about nature, music, dreams and the border between waking and sleep.
Homie
A book-length love letter to the friends who keep Smith alive, in poems that refuse both despair and easy access.