New and Selected Poems, Volume One

This poetry collection includes Mary Oliver's perceptive and brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death. With thirty new poems published only in this volume and selections from her first eight books, the poems illuminate how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive." Praise from critics and readers alike make this one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country.