New and selected poems : volume 2 / Mary Oliver.

NEW POEMS (2004-2005) : North Country -- Everything -- Chicken, 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.

New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly five decades. Now recognized as an unparalleled poet of the natural world, Mary Oliver writes with unmatched dexterity and a profound appreciation for the divergence and convergence of all living things.