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Why I Wake Early

New Poems

New Poems

New Poems

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

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Category: Poetry | Science

Category: Poetry | Science

Category: Poetry | Science

Paperback $16.00

Apr 15, 2005 | ISBN 9780807068793

Hardcover $24.00

Apr 15, 2004 | ISBN 9780807068762

Ebook $12.99

Apr 15, 2004 | ISBN 9780807096994

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    About Why I Wake Early

    The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

    About Why I Wake Early

    Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America’s foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver’s work.

    The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to marvel.

    On the eve of the publication of her third volume of poems, Twelve Moons, Archibald MacLeish wrote to Mary Oliver: “You have indeed entered the kingdom. You have done something better than create your own world: you have discovered the world we all live in and do not see and cannot feel.”

    In the twenty-five years since, Mary Oliver has published nine more volumes of poetry, each revealing new aspects of our world, inviting us to pause with her and to see and feel them. In this new volume she demonstrates, perhaps more affectionately than ever before, “what it means to be human and what is worthwhile about life,”* or, more simply, why the poet wakes early. (*Library Journal)

    About Why I Wake Early

    The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

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    Swan
    Evidence
    The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
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    See all books by Mary Oliver

    Also by Mary Oliver

    Swan
    Evidence
    The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
    Many Miles
    Our World
    See all books by Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    About Mary Oliver

    A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. The New York… More about Mary Oliver

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Science

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Apr 15, 2005 | 96 Pages | 6-1/4 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807068793

    Category: Poetry | Science

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Apr 15, 2004 | 96 Pages | 6-1/4 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807068762

    Category: Poetry | Science

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Apr 15, 2004 | 88 Pages | ISBN 9780807096994
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    Praise

    Praise for Mary Oliver’s poetry:

    ‘These are life enhancing and redemptive poems that coax the sublime from the subliminal.’ –Sally Connolly, Poetry

    ‘Mary Oliver’s poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight.’ –May Swenson

    ‘The gift of Oliver’s poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable.’ –Miami Herald

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