First edition of this early collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, including "Wild Geese," arguably Oliver's most beloved poem.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $750.00
"You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting."
In a career overview of Oliver in THE NEW YORKER, critic Ruth Franklin described DREAM WORK — the follow-up to Oliver's Pulitzer-winning AMERICAN PRIMITIVE — as "possibly her best book," noting the collection's power comes from "the push and pull of the sinister and the sublime, the juxtaposition of a poem about suicide with another about starfish."
Read more: Franklin, "What Mary Oliver's Critics Don't Understand," The New Yorker, November 20, 2017.
First printing. Boston / New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth over blue paper boards, gilt-stamped spine titles, publisher's device blind-stamped to front board. In original unclipped ($14.95) pictorial duct jacket. [6], 90 pages. Jacket with very faint rippling, couple tiny spots of soil. Interior bright and clean. Sharp.
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