Socrates in the Garden (Hardcover)

This second collection focuses on family relationships and on travel. It also contains a stunning sequence of poems called "Talking to the Bees", in which a father informs a swarm of bees of his son's tragic death, in keeping with a tradition that states without this knowledge, the bees might leave the hive and take their wisdom elsewhere. There are also many love poems. Thomas McCarthy wrote that "It's the love poetry that will establish Wyley's name".