OLIVER, Mary.

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Dream Work. First edition, hardback issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the poet to her friend June Jensen and her brother: "For June and Alan, with love, Mary and [Molly], Provincetown, 1986". Oliver's partner Molly Malone Cook has signed her own name in the inscription. Loosely inserted is a birthday card inscribed by Oliver: "For June, Happy Birthday and love, Mary, Molly and Bean".Oliver has additionally signed the title page. This collection includes the first appearance of "Wild Geese", "Starfish", "Morning Poem", and "The Journey". 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).

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