It was there, in the late ’50s, that she met photographer Molly Malone Cook. Vincent Millay in upper New York state, companion to the poet’s sister Norma Millay. She lived for several years at the home of Edna St. As a young woman, Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but took no degree. Oliver has since published twenty books of poetry and six books of prose. 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, originally printed in the UK by Dent Press, was reissued in the United States in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935–2019) gave very few interviews over the years.
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