Henry Normal's Collected Poems, Vol. 2 includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are concerned with love, death, truth, and other inconvenient distractions. The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. Swallowing the Entire Ocean is concerned with the search for meaning, identity, and truth, and other foolhardy adventures.