Spells · New and Selected Poems by Finch, Annie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by Annie Finch Title Page 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 Autumn Elegy 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 Tribute The 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-Bracelet Wine-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 Dreams From 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

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