Why I Wake Early: New Poems
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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“Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems.”—Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and HealthPraise for Owls and Other Fantasies:“Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose about birds…all rendered with the precision of a line-drawing of a single feather that puts the entire wing into perspective.” —Orion 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
Why I Wake Early3Bone4Freshen the Flowers, She Said7Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?8Beans10The Arrowhead11Trout Lilies12The Poet Goes to Indiana13The Snow Cricket15The Lover of Earth Cannot Help Herself17Have You Seen Blacksnake Swimming?19How Everything Adores Being Alive20Clouds22Spring at Blackwater: I Go Though the Lessons Already Learned23The Lily24Look and See26This World27At Black River28The Marsh Hawk30Breakage32Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?33Snow Geese34What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon36The Dovekie37Something38Logos40Bear41Many Miles42Luna43"Just a minute," said a voice ...45This Morning I Watched the Deer49The Old Poets of China50White-eyes51Yellowlegs53The Best I Could Do54The Wren from Carolina56Some Things, Say the Wise Ones57Mindful58Song of the Builders60Look Again61Goldenrod, Late Fall62November63Daisies65One66The Soul at Last68The Pinewoods69Lingering in Happiness71
