Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver

Synopsis

"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 Health

Praise 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

Biography

Mary Oliver has written more than ten volumes of poetry and prose and is one of America's best-selling and most honored poets, a winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, she is now on the faculty of Bennington College in Vermont.