For much of her adult life, poet Mary Oliver pursued her métier in relative obscurity, publishing well respected if modestly selling volumes of her work. Then, in 1984, she won the Pulitzer Prize, and that changed everything.
Oliver in her last three decades became a rare celebrity poet – beloved of cultural icons like Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert, and a big draw on the speaking circuit where she read from her poems, like “Wild Geese” and “The Summer Day” (oft-quoted for its line “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and
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