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Fierce with Reality presents a diverse range of literature on aging that demonstrates the challenges, complexities and pleasurable aspects of late life. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural. Intro -- Contents -- The Old Poets of China, Mary Oliver -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 A Kaleidoscope of Images -- Paciencia, Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Concert, Josephine Miles -- Poems by Po Chu-I, translated by Arthur Waley -- Though You Are Yoong, Thomas Campion -- Pawnee Buffalo Dance Song -- Our old women gods, we ask you, Tewa -- Grandfather's Prayer, Wintu -- Those Wild Fauves, Tillie Friedenberg -- Old Woman in Triumph, Claire J. Baker -- The Welcome Table, for sister Clara Ward Alice Walker -- 2 Homage to Grandmothers -- Matmiya (for my Grandmother), Mary TallMountain -- Grandma Jessie, William Oandasan -- Lineage, Margaret Walker -- For My Grandmother, Marie-Anne Maillet, Susann Pelletier -- Free to Live, Jane Rule -- 3 Strength and Wisdom -- Old Age in Vietnamese Culture: Two Views, Danh Ho and Tan Luong -- Aging in My Culture, Ponloeu Lao -- Folktale, Annie P. Truong -- The Older, the Stronger, Kern Peng -- YuGong Moved the Mountains, Steven Li -- The Jizos Wore Sedge Hats, Masako Saigo Cohen -- The Old Couple and Their Goat, Iraqi Folktale -- Annie at 109, Tom Domek -- Promise for 65, Jacqueline Lapidus -- Drought, Linda Hogan -- 4 Aging Is Not for Sissies -- miss rosie, Lucille Clifton -- The King of the Tables, Andrew McNabb -- A Day with Dad, Lynn Scott -- There She Goes, Adair Lara -- Senior Citizen Trio, Pat Mora -- Old Age, Paul Moran -- Oyasuteyama or the Mountain of the Old, Masako Saigo Cohen -- 5 Growth and Change -- Who Says an Older Woman Can't/Shouldn't Dance? Gloria Wade-Gayles -- The Flame, Helen Earle Simcox -- Red Shoes at Sixty, Helen Earle Simcox -- Just Keep Breathing, Anna Morgan -- Free Range, Ida VSW Red -- Being Old, Nina Draxten -- Excerpt from Else Gidlow's autobiography, Elsa: I Come with My Songs, Introduction, Celeste West -- Memory Is as Uncertain as Grace, Mary Meigs.
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