The wanton sublime : a florilegium of whethers and wonders / Anna Rabinowitz.

Of Plunder and Precinct 15
Unarmed, unwarned... 17
from A Gallery of Upper Case Scaffolding as Anomalous Verse 21
Quick 25
Speculum and Shade 27
from Mirror of the World 28
On All Hands at Hand Handily 29
Desire installs itself in the eye... 31
Whatsoever He Saith Unto You... 32
La Morenita Little Darkling 34
The divine descends as weather 35
from A Disquisition on Unbearable Conundrums of Being 37
from Farmer Troves: March 25, In the Year of... 38
The Woven Child 40
Grandeurs and Desolations 41
from A Variorum Concerning the Marvels of Woman 42
A Small Anatomy of Feeling 43
The light cannot be explained 44
from Odes and Oddments 46
Thunder, Sweet Longing 47
The night was deep and long, an untamed beast, a cormorant fishing for food... 48
from Odes and Oddments 49
Who/What Is It Comes? 50
from A Disquisition on Unbearable Conundrums of Being 51
from A Disquisition on Unbearable Conundrums of Being 52
The point is lament 53
from Odes and Oddments 55
Because she is a woman-young, pleasing to the eye 56
from Odes and Oddments 57
from The Canto of the Pearl 58
A Discourse of Query and Reply 59
from Codex Atlanticus, Folio 9 61
from A Disquisition on Unbearable Conundrums of Being 62
The angel have we forsaken/forgotten him? 63
from A Book of Rubbings and Elseways 64
from The Book of Mandate as Helotry 65
Cloak, Perfect Cloud 66
Nuance and Naming 68
from A Prolegomenon of Benedictine Liturgy as Peregrine Song 69
from A Discourse on Progeny as Erwartung 70
Chroma and Vicissitude 71
from A Treatise on Painting 72
It is time to speak of the lies 73
from Meanings and Mentors 77
Comes now the presto of his offensive 78
Woman 79
from A Book of Rubbings and Elseways 80
from Marks, Mysteries, and Melodies 82
The real, the true song 84
Then the womb of Mary 85
Come Gabriel, blow your horn 86
from Meanings and Mentors 87
from Odes and Oddments 88
Breath and Bewilderment 89
from Meanings and Mentors 92
The Wanton Sublime 93.