Why I Wake Early: New Poems

by Mary Oliver

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0807068764
  • ISBN13 9780807068762
  • Publish Date 15 April 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press