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| Why I Wake Early: New Poems | 
| Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 11696
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 71
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0807068799
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780807068793
ASIN: 0807068799
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
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"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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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
Mary Oliver poems September 29, 2008
I am so glad to have found Mary Oliver. I love her intimate relationship with nature. Her poetry makes me feel close to her, to nature, and to life in general. I benefit by her observations and insight.
Nature Poetry at its Best May 25, 2008
I have already shared this book at my Book Club, at a women's retreat, and with friends. What a joy to read.
Read this and you love the mornings March 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really don't know much about poetry, except that I like that it seems to be less fettered by rules. I like it for its rhythms and possibility and for its hope. A friend showed me a poem of Mary Oliver's this spring, This Morning I Watched the Deer, and I thought more people will read poetry if they are shown this poem.
why I wake early by mary oliver January 23, 2008
this book is so lovely I only wish I had the means to give as a gift to all my most cherished friends. Mary Oliver has certainly given it to us. I lived 7 years in Provincetown, read clips in the newspaper and NEVER knew she also lived there...somewhere, tucked into a niche of beauty. Ms. Charley Stites
Pay Attention October 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Savoring Mary Oliver's poems bring me joy, they are a respite from the news of our times and a balm to my soul. The theme throughout this book is to pay attention, to stop and watch and be amazed.
Look and See
This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew
to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back
of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off, amused.
The duck, too, was not provoked,but, you might say, was
laughing.
This afternoon a gull sailing over
our house was casually scratching
its stomach of white feathers with one
pink foot as it flew.
Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we
only look, and see.
Last night I attended a talk at The Wisconsin Book Festival by Rick Bass and Terry Tempest Williams. Their theme was to not only pay attention to the wonders of nature, but to pay attention to what is happening to it, local warming, the lack of water in the West, the disruption of migration patterns and habitat. Pay Attention.
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