Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. This volume, Oliver's 21st book of poetry, contains all-new poems on her classic themes.

Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. This volume, Oliver's 21st book of poetry, contains all-new poems on her classic themes.

"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. * Swan,her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan * is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."