The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem

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Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. . With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the US Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said: "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. " The Boston Globe has called Mary Oliver "a great poet ...she is amazed but not blinded. " And the Miami Herald has said: "The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable. "

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Praise for Mary Oliver
"A great poet....She is amazed but not blinded."--Boston Globe
"A master of spare and evocative imagery."--Poetry
"Oliver might be accused of an untransformed and reactionary romanticism. One would think that poems about self, nature, death, and ecstasy had run their course in English. Think again."--Chicago Tribune
"Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring."--The New York Times
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes is unforgettable."--Miami Herald
"What good company Mary Oliver is!"--Los Angeles Times
"Who wouldn't want to be part of Mary Oliver's world"--Appalachian Review

Author Bio

Mary Oliver is the author of twenty books, including The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know. Her many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.