Reviews: Poems by Mary Oliver are the basis of Ronald Perera’s colourful and poignant Why I Wake Early, named for the last of eight sections that move from one morning to the next. It is well worth the price. An exquisite little book to give or to own! This book is so lovely and inspirational. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. All Rights Reserved, May 15, 2020 Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. So sweet. A simple, yet wonderful welcome of a new day. Allow yourself to be overcome with gratitude for just a few things you normally take for granted. This is my first Mary Oliver poetry and I am sure it will not be my last. I'd never noticed her writing from a religious viewpoint before. What is your sun today? Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour before the slug creeps to the feast, before the pine needles hustle down Under the bundles of harsh, beneficent rain.” - from, ‘One’ Mary Oliver’s writing is such a dream. In some enlightened future, Mary Oliver's poems will be read as part of the liturgy in churches for people who will still choose to gather in those structures, as well as those of us who prefer Nature–– in woodlands, meadows, along river banks and in sand dunes facing the great oceans. We’d love your help. I really enjoyed Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver. What I would give to be tutored by her stillness, her marvel at the world around her, her recognition and reverence for the seemingly mundane. Rapturous, yet gentle and lovely, too. Just more beautiful poetry by the great old woman who, oh-my-goodness, just makes words sing out such lush pictures of our world. 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. Read and enjoy. A wonderful meditation on nature and stillness and actually seeing the world around us. We are experiencing technical difficulties. I checked out the library e-book, but this is a collection I would like to own. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and crotchety-- best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just… Be the first to ask a question about Why I Wake Early. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Reading her sets my priorities right at the beginning of the day. It's a characteristic of Oliver's poetry that it's gentle and accepting of its surroundings. But a fact of poetry written from a religious impulse is that a secular reader can't or may not appreciate, ultimately, what the poet wishes to express. Welcome to A Potted Life, the official blog about my life as a crazy plant lady. In this bright, simple, and imminently approachable collection of hitherto unpublished poems, I love this: "I believe I will never quite know. Get this book, and read as it is meant to be read You will not be disappointed. *The Dovekie* is wonderful, but you have to read the whole (1 page) thing. Finding life-affirming beauty in the smallest things and revealing them to the reader through the loveliest poetry imaginable, what a gift Oliver has given us! Can I give this book 10 stars - or 100? Hello, sun in my face. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Mary Oliver gives you a reason to wake early in every poem in this gem of a book! Beacon Press; 1st Edition (April 15, 2005).
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