Top 10+ Mary Oliver Poems & Prose – To Cheer Up Your Day

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet whose work has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio, to a family of Protestant farmers. She graduated from college at Ohio State University in 1957 and married Jim Oliver. The two divorced soon after and she moved to New York City, where she worked various jobs while writing poetry.Oliver's first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, was published in 1963. She has since published over 20 volumes of poetry, including American Primitive (1983), which won the Pulitzer Prize; New and Selected Poems (1992), which won the National Book Award; and House of Light (1998). Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages.In January 2019, the author passed away at the age of 83.Oliver's work often explored the relationship between humans and nature, with many of her poems referencing specific animals or plants. She was frequently quoted as saying that “the world is charged with the grandeur of God”, and this idea is evident in much of her work.Despite her illness, Oliver continued to write until the end; one of her last poems, “When Death Comes”, was published just week...