Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver at her finest—forty-five luminous poems exploring how we navigate darkness while bending toward light. Includes beloved classics “Wild Geese” and “The Journey.” Dream Work transforms how you see both the natural world and your own interior landscape.
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Dream Work is made up of poems that fulfill the demand of lyric poetry by being short, passionate, charged with emotion and its necessary companion, thought. The music in Oliver’s writing is unmistakable. Dream Work is an outstanding book.” —Los Angeles Times
In this luminous collection of forty-five poems, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver turns her gaze toward the quiet, transformative work of the spirit. Originally published in 1986, Dream Work captures Oliver at the height of her powers, exploring the parallel beauty and brutality of the natural world with her signature clarity and grace.
These poems ask the essential questions: How do we live authentically? How do we navigate darkness while bending, always, toward the light? Oliver’s answers arrive through keen observations of the coastal landscape, the flight of geese, the journey inward—each poem a meditation on being fully present in this world.
This collection includes some of Oliver’s most beloved and frequently taught poems, including “Wild Geese” and “The Journey”—pieces that have offered solace and inspiration to countless readers seeking their own path forward. Her perceptual awareness runs remarkably deep here, inviting us to see the world with fresh eyes and recognize our place within it.
Dream Work is essential reading for anyone drawn to poetry that illuminates both the natural world and the interior landscape of the human heart. Oliver’s unflinching yet tender voice reminds us that wonder and struggle can exist side by side, and that paying attention is, itself, a form of devotion.
Dream Work is made up of poems that fulfill the demand of lyric poetry by being short, passionate, charged with emotion and its necessary companion, thought. The music in Oliver's writing is unmistakable. Dream Work is an outstanding book.
Oliver's perceptual awareness in these poems is remarkable. She is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at the world and its creatures, to celebrate life and yet be fully conscious of its fragility.
Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing.
| Weight | 0.20 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.00 × 0.22 × 7.75 in |
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| Subject | American, Animals & Nature, Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Women Authors |
| Accolade |
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