The Truro Bear and Other Adventures.: Poems and Essays.
by OLIVER, Mary
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press,, 2008. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. This collection includes "The Summer Day" and the 13 Percy poems, discussing Oliver's "new dog, named for the beloved poet" (p. 68). Mary Oliver (1935-2019) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. Primarily a poet of nature, she lived for most of her writing career in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has been compared to Emerson and Emily Dickinson. Her poetry is "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, for too much hurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. [She] is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of our making. The humbling effect of that perspective is her lasting gift to readers" (Matson, p. 164). Square octavo. Original brown quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red board sides and endpapers. With dust jacket. A fine copy in fine, unclipped jacket. Suzanne Matson, "New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver", Harvard Review, no. 4, Spring 1993.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170234
- Title
- The Truro Bear and Other Adventures.
- Author
- OLIVER, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: Beacon Press,
- Date Published
- 2008
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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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