Dream Work

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness — so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive — continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit — to accepting the truth about one’s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

• American Primitive
• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
• House of Light
• Why I Wake Early: New Poems
• A Thousand Mornings: Poems
• Felicity: Poems
• New and Selected Poems, Volume One
• Upstream: Selected Essays
• A Poetry Handbook
• Dog Songs: Poems