New and selected poems. Volume two

New and selected poems Volume two Volume two /

Mary Oliver, 1935-

Book - 2005

An anthology of 42 new poems, and 69 poems hand picked by the author from previous works.

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Published
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press c2005.
Language
English
Main Author
Mary Oliver, 1935- (-)
Physical Description
178 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780807068861
  • New Poems (2004 - 2005)
  • North Country
  • Everything
  • Children, It's Spring
  • Work, Sometimes
  • Hum
  • First Happenings
  • Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones
  • Holding Benjamin
  • White Heron Rises Over Blackwater
  • The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First
  • Black Bear in the Orchard
  • Honey Locust
  • Percy (One)
  • What Is There Beyond Knowing
  • Ravens
  • The Measure
  • Truro, the Blueberry Fields
  • Oxygen
  • Climbing Pinnacle
  • Mountain Lion on East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y.
  • Circles
  • Tiger Lilies
  • Of What Surrounds Me
  • The Faces of Deer
  • Terns
  • Wild, Wild
  • The Poet With His Face in His Hands
  • Over the Hill She Came
  • Reckless Poem
  • The Book
  • Meanwhile
  • Song for Autumn
  • In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind
  • Patience
  • Percy (Two)
  • What the Body Says
  • Fireflies
  • The Owl Who Comes
  • Lead
  • The Cricket and the Rose
  • Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Percy Three)
  • What I Have Learned So Far
  • From Blue Iris (2004)
  • The Bleeding-heart
  • Touch-me-nots
  • Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater
  • How Would You Live Then?
  • Old Goldenrod at Field's Edge
  • From Why I Wake Early (2004)
  • Why I Wake Early
  • Bone
  • Freshen the Flowers, She Said
  • Beans
  • The Poet Goes to Indiana
  • The Snow Cricket
  • This World
  • Snow Geese
  • Bear
  • Many Miles
  • The Old Poets of China
  • White-eyes
  • Some Things, Say the Wise Ones
  • Mindful
  • Song of the Builders
  • Daisies
  • The Soul at Last
  • Lingering in Happiness
  • From Owls and Other Fantasies (2003)
  • The Dipper
  • Spring
  • Goldfinches
  • Such Singing in the Wild Branches
  • While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing
  • Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond
  • From Winter Hours (1999)
  • Three Prose Poems
  • Moss
  • The Whistler
  • The Storm
  • From West Wind (1997)
  • Seven White Butterflies
  • At Round Pond
  • The Dog Has Run Off Again
  • Am I Not Among the Early Risers
  • Stars
  • Forty Years
  • Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith
  • Dogs
  • West Wind, poem 1
  • West Wind, poem 2
  • West Wind, poem 3
  • West Wind, poem 7
  • West Wind, poem 8
  • West Wind, poem 9
  • Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches
  • From White Pine (1994)
  • Work
  • May
  • Beside the Waterfall
  • Yes! No!
  • In Pobiddy, Georgia
  • Mockingbirds
  • Grass
  • Morning Glories
  • August
  • Owl in the Black Oaks
  • The Gesture
  • I Found a Dead Fox
  • Toad
  • Rumor of Moose in the Long Twilight of New Hampshire
  • The Sea Mouse
  • William
  • Early Morning, New Hampshire
  • Wings
  • March
  • I Looked Up
  • White Pine
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Following by 13 years her National Book Award-winning New and Selected Volume One, this big and very quotable collection offers more of what Oliver's fans revere: optimistic, clear and lyrical explorations of varying ecosystems, (especially the birds, mammals, ponds and forests of the northeastern U.S.) mingled with rapt self-questioning, consolation and spiritual claims some might call prayers. One of the 42 new poems watches ravens on a "morning of green tenderness and/ rain"; others describe a mockingbird, a white heron, an obedient dog, tiger lilies, deer, terns, blueberry fields on Cape Cod (where Oliver lives) and a "Mountain Lion on East Hill Road," glimpsed just "once, years ago." Poems reprinted from six earlier books (beginning with 1994's White Pine) broaden the focus to insect life, to weather and the seasons ("I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky") and to other parts of the U.S.; while most poems use a mellifluous free verse, some choose the simplicities of prose, a form best achieved in Winter Hours (1999). (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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