Introduction | |
Lullaby | p. 5 |
The Pattern | p. 6 |
Child Burial | p. 9 |
The Dark Twin | p. 10 |
Well | p. 12 |
My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis | p. 12 |
Hearth | p. 14 |
Night Walk | p. 14 |
Man Sleeping | p. 15 |
Full Moon | p. 15 |
On the Warpath | p. 16 |
Would you jump into my grave as quick? | p. 16 |
Folktale | p. 17 |
Blessing | p. 17 |
Home | p. 18 |
Dharmakaya | p. 19 |
The View from Under the Table | p. 20 |
Take a breath. Hold it. Let it go | p. 21 |
Ectopic | p. 22 |
The Bog of Moods | p. 23 |
Virgin | p. 24 |
Mother | p. 25 |
Whore | p. 26 |
It Is All I Ever Wanted | p. 27 |
Desire Path | p. 28 |
Stood Up | p. 29 |
Pyrolatry | p. 29 |
Stink Bomb | p. 30 |
Mistle Thrush | p. 30 |
Sudden Rain | p. 31 |
Malice Aforethought | p. 31 |
The Tantric Master | p. 32 |
A Woman's Right to Silence | p. 33 |
Credo | p. 39 |
Hormones | p. 40 |
The Spiralling Song | p. 41 |
Tribute | p. 42 |
The Shape of Saying | p. 42 |
Cornered | p. 43 |
Porpoises | p. 44 |
Tracing | p. 45 |
Canvas Currach | p. 46 |
The Annunciation | p. 47 |
Song of the Wise Woman | p. 48 |
The Otter Woman | p. 48 |
Couplets | p. 50 |
The Wound | p. 51 |
Interior | p. 52 |
A Touch of Sass | p. 53 |
Meditation on the Long Walk | p. 53 |
The Dark House | p. 54 |
These Are Not Sweet Girls | p. 55 |
Captain Roque | p. 57 |
The Loose Alexandrines | p. 57 |
Anubis in Oghery | p. 58 |
Ceres in Caherlistrane | p. 59 |
In the Name of God and of the Dead Generations | p. 60 |
The Joiner's Bench | p. 62 |
The Poet's Lover Names her Price | p. 62 |
The Boning Hall | p. 64 |
The Wineapple | p. 64 |
Prescribing the Pill | p. 66 |
Welsh Pastoral | p. 67 |
The Man of Aran | p. 68 |
Billie | p. 69 |
Pegeen Mike's Farewell to the Playboy | p. 69 |
The Art of House Maintenance | p. 70 |
Autumn | p. 71 |
Winter | p. 72 |
Athene's Song | p. 79 |
The War Horse | p. 80 |
Night Feed | p. 81 |
Mise Eire | p. 82 |
Listen. This is the Noise of Myth | p. 83 |
The Emigrant Irish | p. 86 |
The Journey | p. 86 |
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me | p. 89 |
The Achill Woman | p. 90 |
That the Science of Cartography is Limited | p. 92 |
Lava Cameo | p. 93 |
Love | p. 94 |
The Pomegranate | p. 95 |
Anna Liffey | p. 97 |
The Dolls' Museum in Dublin | p. 103 |
The Blossom | p. 104 |
Formal Feeling | p. 105 |
Mother Ireland | p. 107 |
The Necessity for Irony | p. 108 |
Thanked be Fortune | p. 109 |
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground | p. 110 |
Quarantine | p. 111 |
Irish Poetry | p. 112 |
Select Bibliography | p. 113 |
Index of First Lines | p. 115 |
Index of Titles | p. 118 |
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