MARY OLIVER SIGNED BROADSIDE - FIRST TIME PERCY CAME BACK Ode to Her Beloved Deceased Dog - Limited Edition 1/500

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Limited Edition

THE FIRST TIME PERCY CAME BACK. A poetic broadside by MARY OLIVER about her BELOVED DEAD DOG, PERCY, whose spirit returns to her from time to time.

SIGNED by MARY OLIVER below her printed poem. Publisher / Printer and Date are unstated.

Broadside, printed on heavy-stock cream-colored paper, 10x14 inches.

LIMITED to only 500 numbered copies, of which this is hand numbered 384/500.

NEAR FINE condition, just lightly handled, bright and clean, a lovely copy.

A wonderful broadside poem by Mary Oliver. She loved her dog so much that it returned to her even after it died. The broadside would look beautiful mounted and framed.

About MARY OLIVER (from Wikipedia):

******Mary Jane Oliver, b.1935 d.2019, was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States. Oliver has been compared to Emily Dickinson, with whom she shared an affinity for solitude and inner monologues.******