The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (hardcover)

In excellent condition hardcover (some scratches on dust jacket) book The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver. 96 pages. ISBN 978-0-8070-6884-7. Publication date: October 1, 2008. In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, 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. Mary Oliver (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 New York Times 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; No Voyage and Other Poems. Oliver has since published twenty books of poetry and six books of prose.