Research Catalog

Title

Spells : new & selected poems / Annie Finch.

Author

Finch, Annie, 1956-

Publication

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 215 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry > Women authors > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

New Poems -- Blessing on the Poets 3 -- Homebirth 4 -- Abortion Spell 5 -- Your Land 6 -- Stone and Cloth and Paper 7 -- The Naming 8 -- Frost's Grave 10 -- Tarot: The Magician Card 11 -- Keys 12 -- Beach of Edges 13 -- Earth Day 14 -- Revelry 15 -- Architecture 16 -- Poems, 2000-1990 -- Watching the Whale 19 -- Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle 20 -- Wild Yeasts 21 -- Earth Goddess and Sky God 22 -- Conversation 23 -- Calendars 24 -- Over Dark Arches 27 -- A Carol for Carolyn 28 -- Chain of Women 29 -- Ghazal for a Poetess 30 -- Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant 31 -- Butterfly Lullaby 32 -- Intimations of Pregnancy 33 -- Walk with Me 34 -- Two Bodies 35 -- Final Autumn 36 -- Elegy for My Father 37 -- Poems for the Wheel of the Year -- Samhain 39 -- Winter Solstice Chant 40 -- Imbolc Dance 41 -- A Seed for Spring Equinox 42 -- A Wreath for Beltane 43 -- Summer Solstice Chant 44 -- Lammas 45 -- A Mabon Crown 46 -- Letter for Emily Dickinson 49 -- A Dance for the Inland Sea 50 -- Iowa Barn 51 -- Bluet 52 -- Landing Under Water, I See Roots 53 -- The Furious Sun in Her Mane -- Changing Woman 54 -- Spider Woman 55 -- Aphrodite 56 -- Eve 57 -- Inanna 58 -- Coatlique 59 -- Nut 60 -- Brigid 61 -- Rhiannon 62 -- Running in Church 63 -- Blood Charm: From the Menstrual Hut 64 -- Encounter 65 -- Gulf War and Child: A Curse 66 -- Being a Constellation 67 -- My Raptor 68 -- The Wish for Eyes 69 -- The Last Mermother 70 -- Tribute 72 -- The Intellect of Woman 73 -- Moon 74 -- Poems, 1989-1980 -- Courtship 77 -- Zaraf's Star 78 -- Goddess 80 -- Pearl 81 -- Interpenetrate 82 -- Strangers 83 -- Insect 84 -- The Grim Garden 85 -- Inside the Violet 86 -- Blue Willow 87 -- Speak Softly 88 -- The Door 89 -- No Snake 90 -- A Small Sound in the Dark Woods 91 -- From the Lost Poems -- Such Husks 93 -- Now in November 94 -- Song of the Sorry Side 95 -- Awful Friend 96 -- Nightmare 97 -- Resolution 98 -- Another Pregnant Woman Remembers Incest 99 -- Tongue of Language 100 -- Dusk 101 -- Lesson from a Rock 102 -- Reconciliation Bread 103 -- Night Rain 104 -- Fawns 105 -- An Imaginary Companion 106 -- The Ages' Years: A Dialogue 107 -- Harvest Seam 108 -- Sundown 109 -- Shallow Sky 110 -- Childless 111 -- Wrist-Bracelet 112 -- Wine-Glass Woman 113 -- Lady Bug 114 -- A Wreath of Time 115 -- She That 116 -- From The Encyclopedia, of Scotland -- Invocation 117 -- One, from "Rockwood," 121 -- The Body of the Thing, from "Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat," 129 -- Poems, 1979-1970 -- The August Porch 133 -- Spells 134 -- A Dusk Song 135 -- In Cities, Be Alert 136 -- List 137 -- Still Life 138 -- Coy Mistress 139 -- When Daphne Ran 140 -- Lucid Waking 141 -- Sapphics for Patience 142 -- Another Reluctance 143 -- A Way to See 144 -- First Poem 145 -- Caribou Kitchen 146 -- Performance Works, 1983-2010 -- "Creation Story," excerpted and adapted from Sheba in Eden 149 -- From The Mermaid Tragedy 156 -- From Marina Tsvetaeva: A Captive Spirit 161 -- From Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams 167 -- From Wolf Song 173 -- Translations, 1978-2010 -- The Seafarer 185 -- Louise Labé -- Sonnet 2 [Handsome Brown Eyes] 190 -- Sonnet 5 [Bright Venus] 191 -- Sonnet 13 [The Ivy and the Tree] 192 -- Sonnet 14 [The Point of Death] 193 -- Sonnet 16 [Impotence] 194 -- Sonnet 18 [Kiss Me Again] 195 -- Sonnet 19 [A Meeting with Diana] 196 -- Sonnet 21 [Love Forces My Judgment] 197 -- Sonnet 23 [The Tangle] 198 -- Anna Akhmatova -- The White Bird 199 -- Cleopatra 200 -- Lot's Wife 201 -- Andrée Chedid -- Thirst 202 -- In Praise of Emptiness 203 -- A Fragment of Sappho 204.

ISBN

• 9780819572691 (cloth)
• 0819572691 (cloth)
• 9780819573636 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012044385

OCLC

820450695

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library