Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver

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  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Pub. Date: April 2005
  • ISBN-13: 9780807068793
  • Sales Rank: 14,887
  • 71pp
  • Edition Description: Reprint
 
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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

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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.

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Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 The Eyes of Mary
A reviewer (mooncreekchik@yahoo.com) , A reviewer, 02/12/2005

Mary Oliver looks; she sees everything in infinite yet minute detail. When we see a sunset, or a flower, we have many different thoughts and emotions in a barrage of human feeling; somehow Oliver encompasses all of this, this deep appreciation of the beauty of nature, with the sweep of a few short words. My favorite poem from this collection is 'Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?'

Also recommended: The World: Poetic Connections by Janet Carr Hull