Our World

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 photography with Oliver’s prose-a uniquely intimate intertwining of their lives and art. Among the famous people portrayed in the book are Lorraine Hansberry, Walker Evans, Norman Mailer, and even, through a restaurant window in Venice, Jean Cocteau. Other artists of lesser renown and dozens of wonderful characters are immortalized by Cook’s unfailing eye for the telling detail and perfect composition.