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At Blackwater Pond

Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

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At Blackwater Pond

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
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About this listen

 Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems, spanning her career from Dream Work through New and Selected Poems, Volume Two.

"One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets."—Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Poetry Science United States World Literature
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Came late to her. Well worth the delay. So moving and human. Unique yet universal

beautiful poet

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Love listening to Mary Oliver reading her own poems with such depth of feeling. A joy!

Love Mary Oliver’s poems, they resonate so much with me.

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Utterly dreamlike and calming but also made me think about the natural world and to try and look at things differently. Just beautiful. Thankyou Mary Oliver.

Mary Olivers voice

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Words are inadequate to deacrovevMaru Oliver's poetry Read them for yourself and you will be enriched beyond measure.

Poetry to feed hour soil

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