Alford, Jean B., "The Poetry of Mary Oliver: Modern Renewal Through Mortal Acceptance," Pembroke Magazine, Vol. 20, 1988, pp. 283-88.

De Mott, Robert, "Recent Poetry: 'The Night Traveler'," in Western Humanities Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Spring, 1979, pp. 185-186.

Graham, Vicki, "Into the Body of Another: Mary Oliver and the Poetics of Becoming Other," Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 30, No. 4, Fall, 1994, pp. 352-72.

Oliver, Mary, New and Selected Poems, Boston: Beacon, 1992.

Oliver, Mary, A Poetry Handbook, San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, 1994.

Scully, James, ed., Modern Poetics New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.

Wakoski, Diane, "Oliver, Mary," in Contemporary Women Poets, edited by Pamela L. Shelton, Detroit: St. James, 1998, pp.270-271.