Our World. Photographs by Molly Malone Cook. Text by Mary Oliver.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. First Hardcover Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunning to the spine. Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. This book joins Cook's photographs with Oliver's prose—a uniquely intimate intertwining of their lives and art. There are famous faces here, among them Lorraine Hansberry, Walker Evans, Norman Mailer, and even, through a restaurant window in Venice, Jean Cocteau. Other artists and dozens of wonderful characters and scenes are also immortalized by Cook's unfailing eye for telling detail and perfect composition. Mary Oliver writes of Cook's work, the people they knew, and the places they visited or lived. The poet's beautiful text captures not only the unique qualities of her partner's work, but the very texture of their shared world. Item #29673
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