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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World documentary

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Original title

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Year

2026

Running time

91 min.

Country

United States

Director

Sasha Waters Freyer

Cast

Music

Clare Manchon, Olivier Manchon

Producer

American Masters Pictures, Pieshake Pictures

Genre

Documentary | Biography. Literature

Synopsis

Mary Oliver – best-selling poet & Pulitzer Prize-winner; lover of dogs and long walks in the woods; a gay woman – out, but intensely private. Her poems inspire liberals & conservatives, atheists & believers, naturalists & urbanites. They serve as solace & affirmation for people who still celebrate her widely today. Inspired by muses like Rumi and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary was America's unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds & forests of Cape Cod for nearly 50 years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known & unknowable world. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet's long lifetime of work in context, exploring how she is paradoxically acclaimed (by fans) and derided (by some poetry elites) for being "accessible." The film is an enduring love story that holds Mary Oliver's writing at its heart and center. Her poems, excerpts from her prose, essays, rare interviews and more, root this portrait in the poet’s own language. Dazzling visual imagery of the landscapes that shaped her writing, and as well as archival photographs and films, capture and portray the uniqueness of her world and all of the natural beauty that inspired her.

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