Why I Wake Early: New Poems

by Mary Oliver

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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.
  • ISBN10 0807068799
  • ISBN13 9780807068793
  • Publish Date 15 April 2005 (first published 1 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press