Mary Oliver won the 1992 #NBAward for #Poetry for New and Selected Poems, a collection that remains one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country today. On our blog dedicated to the Winners of the National Book Award for Poetry poet Kiki Petrosino writes that Oliver’s introspections concerning the natural world allow us “to understand nature as a passageway to a place enchanted by inquiry.” It is Oliver’s gift for the ecstatic, the intimate, and the revelatory that make Oliver’s solitary soliloquies universally loved. As when Oliver writes: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?”