Why I Wake Early

by Oliver, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780807068793
• ISBN10: 0807068799
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

"Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of 47 poems."--Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, authors of "Spirituality Legacy."

Author Biography

Mary Oliver is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her books include Red Bird; Our World; Thirst; Blue Iris; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. She has also published five books of prose, including Rules for the Dance and, most recently, Long Life. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

PART ONE
Why I Wake Early	3	(1)
Bone	4	(3)
Freshen the Flowers, She Said	7	(1)
Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?	8	(2)
Beans	10	(1)
The Arrowhead	11	(1)
Trout Lilies	12	(1)
The Poet Goes to Indiana	13	(2)
The Snow Cricket	15	(2)
The Lover of Earth Cannot Help Herself	17	(2)
Have You Seen Blacksnake Swimming?	19	(1)
How Everything Adores Being Alive	20	(2)
Clouds	22	(1)
Spring at Blackwater: I Go Through the Lessons Already Learned	23	(1)
The Lily	24	(2)
Look and See	26	(1)
This World	27	(1)
At Black River	28	(2)
The Marsh Hawk	30	(2)
Breakage	32	(1)
Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?	33	(1)
Snow Geese	34	(2)
What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon	36	(1)
The Dovekie	37	(1)
Something	38	(2)
Logos	40	(1)
Bear	41	(1)
Many Miles	42	(1)
Luna	43	(2)
``Just a minute,'' said a voice...	45	(4)
PART TWO
This Morning I Watched the Deer	49	(1)
The Old Poets of China	50	(1)
White-eyes	51	(2)
Yellowlegs	53	(1)
The Best I Could Do	54	(2)
The Wren from Carolina	56	(1)
Some Things, Say the Wise Ones	57	(1)
Mindful	58	(2)
Song of the Builders	60	(1)
Look Again	61	(1)
Goldenrod, Late Fall	62	(1)
November	63	(2)
Daisies	65	(1)
One	66	(2)
The Soul at Last	68	(1)
The Pinewoods	69	(2)
Lingering in Happiness	71