{"product_id":"the-truro-bear-and-other-adventures-isbn-9780807068847","title":"The Truro Bear and Other Adventures","description":"From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes \"the creatures, with their \/ thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their \/ infallible sense of what their lives \/ are meant to be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Truro Bear and Other Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems, the closing section of this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Renée Loth has observed in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1983, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world . . . She teaches us the profound act of paying attention.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTell me, what is it you plan to do\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith your one wild and precious life?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mary Oliver, \"The Summer Day\" (one of the poems in this volume)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems In This Volume\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Chance to Love Everything\u003cbr\u003eThe Gesture \u003cbr\u003ePorcupine \u003cbr\u003eToad \u003cbr\u003eOne Hundred White-sided Dolphins on a Summer Day \u003cbr\u003eThe Kitten \u003cbr\u003eGhosts \u003cbr\u003eCarrying the Snake to the Garden \u003cbr\u003eThe Opossum \u003cbr\u003eThis Is the One \u003cbr\u003eAt Herring Cove \u003cbr\u003eCoyote in the Dark, Coyotes Remembered \u003cbr\u003eTurtle \u003cbr\u003eThe Other Kingdoms \u003cbr\u003eSwimming with Otter \u003cbr\u003eBlack Snake \u003cbr\u003eFive A.M. in the Pinewoods \u003cbr\u003eHumpbacks \u003cbr\u003eMoles \u003cbr\u003eThe Snow Cricket \u003cbr\u003eWhelks \u003cbr\u003eA Meeting \u003cbr\u003eThe Gift \u003cbr\u003eThe Truro Bear \u003cbr\u003eAlligator Poem \u003cbr\u003eThe Hermit Crab\u003cbr\u003eHannah’s Children\u003cbr\u003ePipefish\u003cbr\u003eThis Too\u003cbr\u003eSwoon\u003cbr\u003eHow Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet Goes to Indiana\u003cbr\u003eThe Summer DayOliver has the ability to transform everyday life events into something extraordinary. . . . [She shows us a natural world that is too often forgotten, in all its humor, grace and absolute loveliness.] —Emily Nicklin, \u003ci\u003eNature Conservancy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oliver, one of the country's most popular and highly awarded poets, presents . . . beautifully tempered lyrics celebrating the splendor of the living world . . . Oliver's signature tropes are as vital as ever-her beloved birds, dogs, snakes, and ocean are all summoned to capture the breathtaking glory of life.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The work of Mary Oliver is one of those rare and lovely convergences. She is a lyric artist with a riveted eye and an enormous heart, one of the nation's great spiritual sentinels.\"—Brian Doyle, \u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.\"—Stephen Dobyns, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\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":46304472531173,"sku":"NP9780807068847","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807068847.jpg?v=1767741922","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-truro-bear-and-other-adventures-isbn-9780807068847","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}