Spells : new & selected poems / Annie Finch.

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.