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  <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show_group/44217.Master_List_of_Author_Disambiguation_by_Spaces&quot;&gt;See this thread for more information&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;

“Mary Oliver. In a region that has produced most of the nation's poet laureates, it is risky to single out one fragile 71-year-old bard of Provincetown. But Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1983, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world. Her Wild Geese has become so popular it now graces posters in dorm rooms across the land. But don't hold that against her. Read almost anything in New and Selected Poems. She teaches us the profound act of paying attention—a living wonder that makes it possible to appreciate all the others.”
—Renée Loth, Boston Globe, September 2, 2007]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>09/10/1935</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[New and Selected Poems: Volume One]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.54</average_rating>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[American Primitive]]></title>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Poetry Handbook]]></title>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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        <book id="42632">
  <title><![CDATA[Thirst: Poems]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why I Wake Early: New Poems]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[New and Selected Poems: Volume Two]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dream Work]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[House of Light]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Red Bird: Poems]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems]]></title>
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