Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver Entangled • Finalist for the WOMEN'S

• Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE

Collins asks us to slow down and glimpse the elevated in the ordinary

and ultimately to rediscover a “second life of seeing

This covetable edition is Wibalin-bound with gold-foil embossing

open grave where no grave should be

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver Entangled • Finalist for the WOMEN'SThe forty seven new works in this volume include 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 wake early.