# Why I Wake Early

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- Book: [Why I Wake Early](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-oliver/why-i-wake-early) ([Why I Wake Early.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-oliver/why-i-wake-early.md))
- Authors: [Mary Oliver](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-oliver)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7216-096-6
- Published: 2027-03-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.