Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
--Mary Oliver, from 'Why I Wake Early'

Mary Oliver's classic collection Why I Wake Early embraces the power and grace that are the hallmarks of Oliver's work.

Why I Wake Early offers us unforgettable glimpes of crickets, toads, lilies, black snakes, butterflies and bears; poems of sunlight, of pinewood and ponds, of 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 marvel.

Archibald MacLeish wrote to Mary Oliver: 'You have indeed entered the kingdom. You have done something better than create your own world: you have discovered the world we all live in and do not see and cannot feel.'

In Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver reveals, lovingly, what it means to be human and, more simply: why the poet wakes early.

Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver wrote over thirty volumes she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She also received the Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy an, Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award, and the National Book Award, amongst several others.

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ISBN 13	9781472160973
ISBN 10	1472160975
Title	Why I Wake Early
Author	Oliver Mary
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Corsair
Year published	2027-03-11
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