Why I Wake Early

"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 HeraldOliver, Mary is the author of 'Why I Wake Early ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780807068793 and ISBN 0807068799.