Why I Wake Early by Mary OliverThis collection presents forty-seven poems, each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. Includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, 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.