American Primitive: Poems

Oliver, Mary

ISBN 10: 0316650021 / ISBN 13: 9780316650021

Published by Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press /Atlantic-Little, Brown Books, Boston, 1983

About this Item

First printing of the stated first edition, in original first issue dust jacket. Faint rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else book in fine condition; with light wear to spine ends / corners and light rubbing to back fold, else fine. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive.

Seller Inventory # 022670

Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Primitive: Poems
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press /Atlantic-Little, Brown Books, Boston
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316650021
• ISBN 13: 9780316650021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Molly Malone Cook (Author photo); Lisa Paquette
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Modern First Editions
  • A Collection of Women Writers

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Synopsis

The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitive things of America — the wilderness that survives both within our bodies and outside — "...the cords / of my body stretching / and singing in the / heaven of appetite." - Publisher comments.