American Primitive. Poems.

OLIVER, Mary.

Edité par Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983

First edition, hardcover issue, of her 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, her sixth overall. Stanley Kunitz wrote that the book "enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages". Oliver (1935-2019) won 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 Dickinson. The Harvard Review described Oliver's poetry as "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, for too much flurry 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". Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's blind stamp to front cover. With dust jacket. Unclipped jacket with minor rubbing to extremities. Near-fine in like jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 189419

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Titre : American Primitive. Poems.
Éditeur : Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983
Edition : Edition originale