PoetryBook
Devotions by Mary Oliver
A comprehensive collection spanning five decades of Oliver's nature-inspired poetry.
Why I Recommend This
Mary Oliver's Devotions is an essential collection for any poetry lover. Her ability to find profound meaning in simple observations of the natural world is unmatched.
Oliver's poems remind us to slow down, to notice the small things—a grasshopper, a morning walk, the way light falls through trees. Her work has taught me that poetry doesn't need to be complicated to be powerful.
Favorite line: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
This collection spans her entire career and serves as the perfect introduction to her work, or as a treasured anthology for longtime fans.