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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA PICK • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver, a definitive and enduring collection of her best work
“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.”—The Washington Post
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, from “The Summer Day”
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Arranged by Oliver herself shortly before her death in 2019, Devotions features Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight, through her last, Felicity, published in 2015.
This timeless volume showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.
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“Sometimes Farr’s voice caresses the words, sometimes excitedly declaims them; nonetheless, her delivery is always true to their deeper emotions. Oliver chose these poems as her best, and here we can hear them as their best selves. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.”
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“One of our most beloved writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts…The collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning away from grief and finding in nature a ‘vast, incredible gift.’”
— Washington Post
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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A Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month's Best Audiobooks
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A Today Show Read with Jenna Pick
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About Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (1935–2019), an American poet, was a winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. And over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous other awards, including the Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award, the Christopher Award, the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, the National Book Award, a Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence.
About Kimberly Farr
Kimberly Farr is an actress and winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. In 2025 she was named a Golden Voice, AudioFile magazine’s lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators. She has appeared on Broadway and at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, and the American Place. She created the role of “Eve” in Arthur Miller’s first and only musical, Up from Paradise, which was directed by the author. She appeared with Vanessa Redgrave in the Broadway production of The Lady from the Sea and has acted in regional theaters across the country, including a performance in the original production of The 1940’s Radio Hour at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage.