{"product_id":"at-blackwater-pond-isbn-9780807007006","title":"At Blackwater Pond","description":"One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. --Stephen Dobyns, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of \u003ci\u003eAt Blackwater Pond,\u003c\/i\u003e Mary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this beautifully produced compact disc, Mary Oliver has recorded forty of her favorite poems, nearly spanning the length of her career, from \u003ci\u003eDream Work\u003c\/i\u003e through her newest volume, \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems, Volume Two.\u003c\/i\u003e The package is shrink-wrapped so that the elegant clothbound audiobook can takes its place on the poetry shelf. It also includes a fifteen-page booklet with an original essay, \"Performance Note,\" photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full listing of the poems and their sources.\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Lark Ascending 1:03\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Some Herons 1:32 \u003cbr\u003e3 Wild Geese 1:13 \u003cbr\u003e4 Beans 1:15 \u003cbr\u003e5 The Swan 1:29 \u003cbr\u003e6 Bone 1:55 \u003cbr\u003e7 Hermit Crab 1:20\u003cbr\u003e8 Goldenrod 1:35 e\u003cbr\u003e9 I Looked Up 0:52 \u003cbr\u003e10 The Buddha’s Last Instruction 1:42\u003cbr\u003e11 The Kingfisher 1:25 \u003cbr\u003e12 Bear 1:16 \u003cbr\u003e13 Some Things, Say the Wise Ones 1:11 \u003cbr\u003e14 Her Grave 3:15 \u003cbr\u003e15 Mindful 1:11 \u003cbr\u003e16 Lonely,White Fields 1:33 \u003cbr\u003e17 Where Does the Temple Begin 1:32 \u003cbr\u003e18 Goldfinches 1:08 \u003cbr\u003e19 Song of the Builders 0:43 \u003cbr\u003e20 Peonies 1:41\u003cbr\u003e21 Five a.m. in the Pinewoods 1:30\u003cbr\u003e22 The Summer Day 1:29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23 The Lark Ascending 1:36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24 The Sun 1:16\u003cbr\u003e25 The Snow Cricket 1:40 \u003cbr\u003e26 Whelks 1:32 \u003cbr\u003e27 Hum 1:50 \u003cbr\u003e28 White Flowers 1:21 \u003cbr\u003e29 Rice 0:57 \u003cbr\u003e30 Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard 1:49\u003cbr\u003e31 Maybe 1:26\u003cbr\u003e32 When Death Comes 1:49\u003cbr\u003e33 Lingering in Happiness 0:59\u003cbr\u003e34 The Ponds 1:33\u003cbr\u003e35 Roses, Late Summer 1:46Much of the work of the poet is a mystery, but the last labor is clear; it is the deliverance of the poem. Often this happens through a manuscript or a book, but it can occur in a vocal way also. Has everyone at some time looked up the original meaning of performance? It means, says Webster, 'to finish, to complete.' The poem is meant to be given away, best of all by the spoken presentation of it; then the work is complete. Which makes performance sound, does it not, like part of the life-work of the poem, which I think it is. As if the poem itself had an independent life, or the endless possibility of its own life, in minds other than the poet's, which I think it has.--Mary Oliver, from \"Performance Note,\" an original essay first published in \u003ci\u003eAt Blackwater Pond\u003c\/i\u003eA private person by nature, \u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e (1935–2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.” Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28; \u003ci\u003eNo Voyage and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. Oliver has since published twenty books of poetry and six books of prose. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poet’s sister Norma Millay. It was there, in the late ’50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. For more than forty years, Cook and Oliver made their home together, largely in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they lived until Cook’s death in 2005. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship\/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. Oliver’s essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 1996, 1998, 2001; the Anchor Essay Annual 1998, as well as Orion, Onearth and other periodicals. Oliver was editor of \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 2009. Oliver’s books on the craft of poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Poetry Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRules for the Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, are used widely in writing programs. She is an acclaimed reader and has read in practically every state as well as other countries. She has led workshops at various colleges and universities, and held residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Bucknell University, University of Cincinnati, and Sweet Briar College. From 1995, for five years, she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Art Institute of Boston (1998), Dartmouth College (2007) and Tufts University (2008).","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304925483237,"sku":"NP9780807007006","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807007006.jpg?v=1767721896","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/at-blackwater-pond-isbn-9780807007006","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}