First printing of perhaps Oliver's best and best-known collection, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Near fine in a very good jacket.
Price: $2,500.00
"there's a sickness / worse than the risk of death and that's / forgetting what we should never forget."
In her career overview of Oliver in THE NEW YORKER, critic Ruth Franklin described the poet's work in her acclaimed AMERICAN PRIMITIVE as "out of her comfort zone," engaged in "the push and pull of the sinister and the sublime." A book deeply attentive to the natural world, it remains one of Oliver's most popular and beloved works.
Read more: Franklin, "What Mary Oliver's Critics Don't Understand," The New Yorker, November 20, 2017.
First edition. Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, (1983). 8'' x 5.25''. Original full green cloth. In original unclipped ($12.50) photographic jacket. viii, 88 pages. Notable scuff to rear panel of jacket running along spine fold. Trace shelfwear. Else a sharp, bright, and tight example.
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