Poems. Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-147).
Contents:
Biographies and acknowledgments. Pui Ying Wong / Introduction -- Devreaux Baker / Invocation for spring, We show each other our scars, Dancing at the round house -- Ellen Bass / The orange-and-white high-heeled shoes, Reincarnation, Taking off the front of the house -- Elizabeth Bradfield / Pursuit, Dispatch from this summer, Repair -- Janine Canan / Woman, Acceptance -- Maxine Chernoff / The possible, Cuchulain -- Susan Cohen / Golden hills of California, Quiver -- Elizabeth J. Coleman / Fearless -- Gillian Conoley / Election year, The house of secrets -- Lucille Lang Day / Love's seasons, After catastrophe, Wanjina -- Sharon Doubiago / In the lake, Still in the lake, Mama -- Camille T. Dungy / What I know I cannot say, Characteristics of life -- Iris Jamahl Dunkle / On hearing that the radiation from Fukushima has reached the West Coast, Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung, Hole in the sky -- Sandy Eastoak / River -- Terry Ehret / Enough hardness, Night sky journey, Half a woman -- Annie Finch / Amulet for brave women, Pearl, Being a constellation, In cities, be alert -- Molly Fish / The life of a grown-up, North of Tomales -- Miriam Bird Greenberg / Before the world went to hell, Elegy, The arrival -- Judy Halebsky / Self diagnosis, Breath-hold break point, Bristlecone pine -- Elizabeth C. Herron / Holy day -- Brenda Hillman / In a House Sub-Committee on Electronic Surveillance, I heard flame-folder spring bring red, Equinox ritual with ravens & pines -- Jane Hirshfield / Let them not say, My skeleton, Engraving world-tree with an empty beehive on one branch -- Jodi Hottel / Unwritten note -- Susan Kelly-DeWitt / The moon bee, Callas, The crickets -- Maya Khosla / Migration into Bhutan -- Lynne Knight / The silence of women, Mothers and daughters, Willie Nelson's braids -- Danusha LameĢris / Egg, Insha'Allah, Eve, after -- Kathleen Lynch / Canned food drive, Letter to an unmet grandmother -- Mary Mackey / L. tells all, The martyrdom of Carmen Miranda -- Colleen McElroy / Pumpkin eaters, The alchemists -- Jane Mead / Money, Untitled, To the wren, no difference no difference to the jay -- Toni Mirosevich / Tool time, Back up -- Rusty Morrison / our aptitude for perishing, "our aptitude for perishing" -- Gwynn O'Gara / The spirits that lend strength are invisible -- Connie Post / Taking you back to your group home, Charlie, a boy in my son's group home -- Kim Shuck / Weight of night, Light in the kitchen, Going to water in more than one dialect -- Hannah Stein / They can't, can they, The heat -- Melissa Stein / Racetrack, Query -- Jennifer K. Sweeney / Snake in the zendo, In the house of seals -- Julia Vose / Out of center, look back in -- Laura Walker / genesis, genesis, genesis -- Gillian Wegener / Road song, north on 99, The opposite of clairvoyance -- Arisa White / Juvies, Where lakes weren't born -- Toni Wilkes / Resilience -- Leonore Wilson / The tumor, After a line by Heaney -- Kathleen Winter / glamour, Receptive fields of single neurons in the cat's striate cortex -- Pui Ying Wong / Seven stars path, The flag -- Biographies and acknowledgments.
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