num_pages: 96
description: The 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.
title: Why I Wake Early
titlecomplete: Why I Wake Early
genres: Animals, LGBT, Womens, Nature, Poetry, Adult, Classics, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Memoir
ratings_count: 7642
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Poetry
publisher: Beacon Press