Mary Oliver
"Listen- are you breathing just a little, and calling it living?"
-Mary Oliver
Website Design
The dark green clearly highlights the white, cursive, Serif font, and the grey paper background which helps the reader better understand Oliver's connection to nature. The dark green center stands out against the light grey paper backgound. The dark green represents Oliver's connection to her native Ohio and Massachusetts forest's. The paper background is representative of paper and how Oliver is known to carry a notebook with her on her walks through the forest, which helps the reader better understand how nature helps to inspire Oliver by creating metaphors in the scenes she sees. The white, cursive, Serif font is clearly seen against the darker background. The font appears like handwriting against the dark green, which represents trees. The total image the viewer recieves from looking at the handwriting against a representation of nature helps the reader better understand how Oliver is inspired by nature by having a physical representation of her work.
Biography
Mary Oliver was born in 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio. Her father was a high school social studies teacher. She published her first book in 1963 at the age of twenty eight. Oliver won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with her fourth book, American Primitive. She met her partner, Molly Malone Cook, in the late '50's while working for Edna St.Vincent Millay and they lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts until Molly's death in 2005.
-Poetry Foundation
