A spellbinding collection from one of America's most original and magical poets
Cover; Spells; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; NEW POEMS; Blessing on the Poets; Homebirth; Abortion Spell; Your Land; Stone and Cloth and Paper; The Naming; Frost's Grave; Tarot: The Magician Card; Keys; Beach of Edges; Earth Day; Revelry; Architecture; POEMS, 2000-1990; Watching the Whale; Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle; Wild Yeasts; Earth Goddess and Sky God; Conversation; Calendars; Over Dark Arches; A Carol for Carolyn; Chain of Women; Ghazal for a Poetess; Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant; Butterfly Lullaby; Intimations of Pregnancy; Walk with Me; Two Bodies
Final AutumnElegy for My Father; Poems for the Wheel of the Year; Samhain; Winter Solstice Chant; Imbolc Dance; A Seed for Spring Equinox; A Wreath for Beltane; Summer Solstice Chant; Lammas; A Mabon Crown; Letter for Emily Dickinson; A Dance for the Inland Sea; Iowa Barn; Bluet; Landing Under Water, I See Roots; The Furious Sun in Her Mane; Changing Woman; Spider Woman; Aphrodite; Eve; Inanna; Coatlique; Nut; Brigid; Rhiannon; Running in Church; Blood Charm: From the Menstrual Hut; Encounter; Gulf War and Child: A Curse; Being a Constellation; My Raptor; The Wish for Eyes; The Last Mermother
TributeThe Intellect of Woman; Moon; POEMS, 1989-1980; Courtship; Zaraf's Star; Goddess; Pearl; Interpenetrate; Strangers; Insect; The Grim Garden; Inside the Violet; Blue Willow; Speak Softly; The Door; No Snake; A Small Sound in the Dark Woods; From the Lost Poems; Such Husks; Now in November; Song of the Sorry Side; Awful Friend; Nightmare; Resolution; Another Pregnant Woman Remembers Incest; Tongue of Language; Dusk; Lesson from a Rock; Reconciliation Bread; Night Rain; Fawns; An Imaginary Companion; The Ages' Years: A Dialogue; Harvest Seam; Sundown; Shallow Sky; Childless
Wrist-BraceletWine-Glass Woman; Lady Bug; A Wreath of Time; She That; From The Encyclopedia of Scotland; Invocation; One, from "Rockwood"; The Body of the Thing, from "Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat"; POEMS, 1979-1970; The August Porch; Spells; A Dusk Song; In Cities, Be Alert; List; Still Life; Coy Mistress; When Daphne Ran; Lucid Waking; Sapphics for Patience; Another Reluctance; A Way to See; First Poem; Caribou Kitchen; PERFORMANCE WORKS, 1983-2010; "Creation Story," excerpted and adapted from Sheba in Eden; From The Mermaid Tragedy; From Marina Tsvetaeva: A Captive Spirit
From Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven DreamsFrom Wolf Song; TRANSLATIONS, 1978-2010; The Seafarer; Louise Labé; Sonnet 2 [Handsome Brown Eyes]; Sonnet 5 [Bright Venus]; Sonnet 13 [The Ivy and the Tree]; Sonnet 14 [The Point of Death]; Sonnet 16 [Impotence]; Sonnet 18 [Kiss Me Again]; Sonnet 19 [A Meeting with Diana]; Sonnet 21 [Love Forces My Judgment]; Sonnet 23 [The Tangle]; Anna Akhmatova; The White Bird; Cleopatra; Lot's Wife; Andrée Chedid; Thirst; In Praise of Emptiness; A Fragment of Sappho; Acknowledgments; Index of Titles and First Lines; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
