New and selected poems / Mary Oliver.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 1992.

Summary:

Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat 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. 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.Mary Oliver is always searching for the soul of things. In poem after poem, her investigations go from the humble green bean that nourishes her and makes her wonder if "something/-I can't name it-watches as I walk the/rows, accepting the gift of their lives/to assist mine" to the vast, untouchable bliss of "things you can't reach./But you can reach out to them, and all day long./The wind, the bird flying away./The idea of God." Oliver's search grows and is informed by experience, meditation, perception, and discernment. And all the while, during her quest, she is constantly surprised and fortified by joy.This graceful volume, designed to be paired with New and Selected Poems, Volume One, includes new poems on birds, toads, flowers, insects, bodies of water, and the extraordinary experience of the everyday in our lives. In the words of Alicia Ostriker,'Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing.' In both the older and new poems, Mary Oliver is a poet at the height of her control of image and language.

Contents:

• New Poems (2004 - 2005)
• North Country 3
• Everything 4
• Children, It's Spring 5
• Work, Sometimes 6
• Hum 7
• First Happenings 8
• Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones 9
• Holding Benjamin 11
• White Heron Rises Over Blackwater 13
• The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First 15
• Black Bear in the Orchard 16
• Honey Locust 18
• Percy (One) 19
• What Is There Beyond Knowing 20
• Ravens 22
• The Measure 23
• Truro, the Blueberry Fields 24
• Oxygen 25
• Climbing Pinnacle 26
• Mountain Lion on East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y. 28
• Circles 30
• Tiger Lilies 31
• Of What Surrounds Me 32
• The Faces of Deer 33
• Terns 34
• Wild, Wild 36
• The Poet With His Face in His Hands 37
• Over the Hill She Came 38
• Reckless Poem 40
• The Book 42
• Meanwhile 43
• Song for Autumn 44
• In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind 45
• Patience 46
• Percy (Two) 48
• What the Body Says 49
• Fireflies 50
• The Owl Who Comes 52
• Lead 54
• The Cricket and the Rose 55
• Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Percy Three) 56
• What I Have Learned So Far 57
• From Blue Iris (2004)
• The Bleeding-heart 61
• Touch-me-nots 62
• Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater 64
• How Would You Live Then? 66
• Old Goldenrod at Field's Edge 67
• From Why I Wake Early (2004)
• Why I Wake Early 71
• Bone 72
• Freshen the Flowers, She Said 75
• Beans 76
• The Poet Goes to Indiana 77
• The Snow Cricket 79
• This World 81
• Snow Geese 82
• Bear 84
• Many Miles 85
• The Old Poets of China 86
• White-eyes 87
• Some Things, Say the Wise Ones 89
• Mindful 90
• Song of the Builders 92
• Daisies 93
• The Soul at Last 94
• Lingering in Happiness 95
• From Owls and Other Fantasies (2003)
• The Dipper 99
• Spring 101
• Goldfinches 103
• Such Singing in the Wild Branches 104
• While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing 106
• Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond 108
• From Winter Hours (1999)
• Three Prose Poems 113
• Moss 115
• The Whistler 116
• The Storm 117
• From West Wind (1997)
• Seven White Butterflies 121
• At Round Pond 122
• The Dog Has Run Off Again 123
• Am I Not Among the Early Risers 124
• Stars 126
• Forty Years 128
• Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith 130
• Dogs 132
• West Wind, poem 1 135
• West Wind, poem 2 136
• West Wind, poem 3 137
• West Wind, poem 7 138
• West Wind, poem 8 139
• West Wind, poem 9 140
• Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches 141
• From White Pine (1994)
• Work 147
• May 148
• Beside the Waterfall 149
• Yes! No! 151
• In Pobiddy, Georgia 152
• Mockingbirds 154
• Grass 156
• Morning Glories 157
• August 158
• Owl in the Black Oaks 159
• The Gesture 161
• I Found a Dead Fox 162
• Toad 164
• Rumor of Moose in the Long Twilight of New Hampshire 165
• The Sea Mouse 167
• William 169
• Early Morning, New Hampshire 170
• Wings 172
• March 173
• I Looked Up 174
• White Pine 175.

ISBN:

0807068187

OCLC:

25411857