![]() ![]() ) 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. 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 Buy New and Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on. Understand, I am always trying to figure out what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape-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. , 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. About New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. Following by 13 years her National Book Award–winning New and Selected Volume One Mary Oliver The Swan Across the wide waters something comes floatinga slim and delicate ship, filled with white flowers and it moves on its miraculous muscles as though time didn't exist as though bringing such gifts to the dry shore was a happiness almost beyond bearing. ![]()
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