Mary Oliver, the poet whose odes to nature and animals made her one of the favorites of the modern age and won her a Pulitzer Prize, has died. She was 83 and passed at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida from lymphoma, her literary executor said.
Fans from Hillary Clinton to director Ava Duvernay and pop songstress Madonna mourned Oliver’s death with online tributes.
Oliver authored more than 15 poetry and essay collections, focused on her affection for the outdoors and disdain for greed and despoilment. She wrote of owls and butterflies, frogs and geese, the changing seasons and the stars. She tried to merge her mind with her subjects in such books as White Pine, West Wind and the anthology Devotions.
She won the Pulitzer in 1984 for American Primitive and the National Book Award in 1992 for New and Selected Poems. She received the Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement in...
Fans from Hillary Clinton to director Ava Duvernay and pop songstress Madonna mourned Oliver’s death with online tributes.
Oliver authored more than 15 poetry and essay collections, focused on her affection for the outdoors and disdain for greed and despoilment. She wrote of owls and butterflies, frogs and geese, the changing seasons and the stars. She tried to merge her mind with her subjects in such books as White Pine, West Wind and the anthology Devotions.
She won the Pulitzer in 1984 for American Primitive and the National Book Award in 1992 for New and Selected Poems. She received the Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement in...
- 1/18/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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