Mary Oliver is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Her poetry, which celebrates the natural world, has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry. “Poetry isn’t a profession; it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that,” says Mary Oliver. Her highly celebrated work deals largely with the natural world. The Harvard Review states that her poems are “an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, for too much flurry and inattention.”