Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Book & Copyright Information
  3. Editor's Introduction
  4. Part One
  5. Three Facets of the Poets Dilema
  6. To Mr. L. a Puritan
  7. Magdelena
  8. Danuta
  9. Astarte's Weaning
  10. Theo's Mother
  11. Climacteric
  12. Designing
  13. Lion in the Salt Mine
  14. The Pit
  15. Biographics I
  16. Cicatrice
  17. Lovers and Choosers
  18. Beginnings
  19. Untitled
  20. Untitled (in memory of my father)
  21. Another Poem About My Father
  22. Untitled 1
  23. People of the Bog
  24. Kahan
  25. Untitled 2
  26. Untitled 3
  27. Untitled 4
  28. Untitled 5
  29. Untitled 6
  30. Untitled 7
  31. Poetry Workshops – Some Practical Advice
  32. Part Two
  33. Excerpts from Prairie Mass
  34. Litany of the Bagladies
  35. Poetics of Tension and Encounter
  36. Rowan
  37. Untitled 8
  38. Untitled 9
  39. Untitled 10
  40. Untitled 11
  41. The Story of the Heartberry
  42. The Child as Mother to the Woman
  43. Essay on Language
  44. The Thin Pale Man
  45. Part Three
  46. A State of Grace
  47. Three Women at the End of the World
  48. Untitled Statement for "Grain"
  49. Golden Rat
  50. Another Conversation
  51. Untitled 12
  52. Carrying the Stone
  53. Acknowledgements
  54. Biographical Note
  55. Bibliographical Note
  56. About the Editor