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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807068793 (0807068799)
ASIN: 807068799
Publish date: April 15th 2005
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 88
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Environment,
Nature,
Poetry,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian
I've heard a great number of Mary Oliver's poems throughout my years in creative writing programs. I have never heard one I didn't not love. I was enthusiastic to finally read a complete volume of her work and I picked Why I Wake Early for no reason whatsoever. It was just the first to grab my atten...
Loved this. I think it’s taken my whole life to appreciate a book like this, poetry that is quiet and humble and confronts the spiritual and the unknowable without starting from a place of pain and negativity. Favorites include:Why I Wake Early: Watch, now, how I start the day / in happiness, in kin...
For me, not quite as moving as Evidence, but still worthy of the highest rating.
Another great collection by Mary Oliver!
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