Flint Memorial Library (North Reading)

When she named fire, an anthology of contemporary poetry by American women, ed. by Andrea Hollander Budy

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When she named fire

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ed. by Andrea Hollander Budy

The Autumn House poetry series

an anthology of contemporary poetry by American women

Collapsing poem ; The moment ; Onset ; My heart / Kim Addonzio -- Letter home ; Look here ; Crossing ; What we need ; Manners / Pamela Alexander -- What the cleaning lady knows ; The housewife ; O that summer ; How to talk about Jesus ; Home alone / Ginger Andrews -- Marie Laurent Pasteur addresses Louis in her mind while she scalds the sheets ; Helen Keller dying in her sleep ; For Sylvia : come winter. Come, winter ; Blurbs / Julianna Baggott -- Cruising with the check-out girls ; Procession ; The long white ; Dreaming door / Jan Beauty -- Going by taxi ; Rock said ; Chapter one ; Bernard / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Salon ; The new Egypt ; The lover of fruit trees ; The return ; Hold back / Robin Becker -- My hair ; Unabashed ; Three horses ; Hydrangea ; Elegy : Cook County / Robin Benn -- Leda ; Little Red ; The dawn of the Navajo woman ; At Silver Creek Presbyterian Church / Terry Black hawk -- Act one ; Twenty-fourth anniversary -- "And the darkness he called night" ; The new world ; The lesson / China Bosh -- Counting ; Eavesdropping ; Tariff ; Dog's ars poetica / Michelle Boisseau -- The garden ; O Gods of smallest clarity ; Elegy ; Double double ; The driveway / Marianne Boruch --The pleasures of hating ; English flavors ; Belong ; Taller, wider / Laure-Anne Bosselaar -- Learning how to pray ; The napkin ; Easter ; Last day ; The notes / Cathy Smith Bowers -- Language ; Knot tying lessons : The slip knot ; Makeup regimen ; No heron ; Red paint / Fleda Brown -- Divorced men ; Divorced women ; Fasting ; Infertility ; Prognosis / Debra Bruce -- Weird niece ; Be- ; Esque / Sharon Bryan -- When she named fire ; Firmly married ; Nineteen-thirty-eight ; My grandmother taking off my grandfather's shoes ; Living room / Andrea Hollander Budy -- First marriage ; Fair is fair : a dialogue between husband and wife ; Truth and tolerance ; On the soul ; Welsh song / Kelly Cherry -- Bad date polytich. Family restaurant #1 ; Family restaurant #2 ; Moon and oatgrass ; Blues on yellow #2 ; The half is almost gone / Marilyn Chin -- Beans : an apologia for not loving to cook ; Notes for my daughter studying math on the morning of a new year ; The calculus of freedom ; The poet's work / Judith Oritz Cofer -- After ; Likes ; Alone, one must be careful ; Blue front. There were trees ; Birmingham ; drag / Martha Collins -- The Bisbee Donkeys ; Passage ; Before it's too late ; "Tidy" / Deborah Cummins -- Shoe repair business ; After reading at a black college ; Black boys play the classics ; For black women who are afraid ; Bird ; Not forgotten / Toi Derricotte -- Testimonial ; Soprano ; Ö ; Geometry ; Day star / Rita Dove -- Noah and Joan ; Feminism ; Ego ; From the shore / Denise Duhamel -- Language ; Depression ; Vo-Tech ; Before my history class ; From someplace ; In his library / Camille T. Dungy -- Soliloquy of the depressed book ; The sleeping ; Frying trout while drunk ; After your letter of elegant goodbye ; Ordinary objects / Lynn Emanuel --After hours : a glimpse of my radiologist ; Animal funerals, 1964 ; Zenith ; Aftermath ; The Spanish lover / Claudia Emerson -- Interpreting the foreign queen ; People ask what my daughter will think of my poems when she's 16 ; Cow tipping ; First warm day in a college town ; Mother sends my poem to her sister with post-its / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Ice storm ; Rain stick ; Blue window / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Autobiography : the short version ; Diapers for my father ; Silent movie ; Snow ; Vinculum / Alice Friman -- Sin ; Apiary II ; Apiary VIII ; Egret ; Man of war ; Wild rose / Carol Frost -- The escape artist in the prairie ; Forms of conversion ; After Ovid ; The lake ; Women / Allison Funk -- List ; Mimesis as part of the body ; Prologue as part of the body ; Wren ; Open / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Elegance ; The precision ; She writes to the man who writes of her in his poems ; Like Lot's wife ; Asking for directions ; I wage my life against this your body / Linda Gregg -- Glose (once out of the grip of desire, ) ; Ghazal : min al-hobbi ma khatal ; Ghazal : myself ; Glose (staying put provides the solidest) ; 1953 : the bus to Menton / Marilyn Hacker -- The red hat ; Conklin 455, 3:55 PM, Wednesday, March 3, 2004 ; Riverside Park ; Crystal Lake ; Skirts ; The bond / Rachel Hadas -- I beseech thee, o yellow pages ; The language of bees ; Betrothal in B minor ; Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby -- To play pianissimo ; Fortissimo ; For someone considering death ; For mother, after the vision fire ; Dogwood, December ; Words / Lola Haskins -- A hand is shaped for what it holds or makes ; The heat of autumn ; All day the difficult waiting ; Shadow : an assay ; Rainstorm visibly shining in the left-out spoon of a leaf ; Critique of pure reason ; The lost love poems of Sappho ; The woodpecker keeps returning / Jane Hirshfield -- Non-violence 2 ; What the woman said ; Hurry ; What the living do / Marie Howe --At thirty ; Adagio ; The charmed hour ; Midnight reports / Lynda Hull -- Falling out of history ; The valley of the shadow ; The inner life / Allison Joseph -- The knowledge of good and devil ; Eve's striptease ; Sinning ; A pass / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Harmony stoneworks, late winter ; After your nap ; The thief's wife ; Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Egrets at Bolina's Lagoon ; Pomegranates ; Crossing the Mojave at night ; Why I don't like to travel ; Roller Derby, 1958 / Susan Kelly-DeWitt -- Coats ; Prognosis ; Happiness ; After an illness, walking the dog ; Otherwise / Jane Kenyon -- Eighteen ; Her story ; Now there were more of them ; Living apart / Lynne Knight -- A brief history of English romanticism ; Coleridge's laundry ; Nurture ; Watering trough ; Waiting to be rescued ; Death, etc. / Maxine Kumin -- Daughter ; Heartbeat ; Joy ; River keeper ; Skin ; The placenta / Laurie Kutchins -- Family stories ; Fast gas ; What my father told me ; Return ; Bird ; Dust / Dorianne Laux -- Miles per hour ; The firemen are dancing ; Centerfold ; The different ways of going ; Selecting things for vagueness / Ada Limón -- What I think it is ; The house ; Hush, for the night is stealthy ; Always Paris ; Dear Sharon / Susan Ludvigson -- Yard work ; Soap fan ; Observation ; How to build an owl / Kathleen Lynch -- Sunbathing ; Palace of longing ; Their eyes were opened : I (We always ate from that tree) ; Their eyes were opened : XII (Paradise came over me once) ; Their eyes were opened : XXVIII (What I wake to) ; Their eyes were opened : XXXVI (She heads into the wilderness) / Anne Marie Macari -- Desire ; Bluebonnets ; They can't take that away from me ; Young apple tree, December / Gail Mazur -- Good fences ; Visit with the newlyweds ; To the absent wife of the beautiful poet at the writers' conference ; Autobiography of the cab driver who picked me up at a Phoenix hotel to catch a four a.m. flight and began to speak in (almost) rhyming couplets / Rebecca McClanahan --Parlors ; Boyfriend ; Labor Day ; Dumb ; Dirt ; Mammogram / Jo McDougall -- The laden henceforth pending ; concerning that prayer I cannot make ; Passing a truck full of chickens at night on Highway Eighty / Jane Mead -- Drifter ; The perceiving self ; Unmentionables ; All-night melodies ; Fire from the Gods / Marilyn Nelson -- Hippopotomonstrosquipedaliophobia ; My name ; Fishbone ; Wrap ; Falling thirds ; Speak / Aimee Nezhukumatahil -- Half-and-half ; My friend's divorce ; Guide ; Music ; Read me ; Hidden / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Twisting vines ; My mother never told me ; Picture window : blizzard ; Smoke-break behind the treatment center ; Waitress at a window / Deborah Nystrom -- Self-exam ; The rising daughter ; The talk ; Toth farry ; The mother ; Late / Sharon Olds -- Crows ; In the evening, in the pinewoods ; Everything / Mary Oliver -- At the wailing wall ; God's acrostic ; My version : medieval acrostic ; Villanelle ; Egrets in Be'er Sheva / Jacqueline Osherow -- The marriage nocturne ; A question of time ; Bus station ; May rain, Princeton / Alicia Ostriker -- Ten reasons your prayer diet won't work ; I believe I could kneel ; Fat lady reads ; Rounding the point / Nancy Pagh -- In an unaddressed envelope ; After a month of rain ; Return to Maple 9 ; The obligation to be happy ; Suffocation ; The almanac of last things / Linda Pastan -- Buy something pretty and remember me ; Quiet lines ; Linen napkin ; Theology of water ; Confession 3.10.18 / Kathleen Peirce -- The van with the plane ; Shrike Tree ; Cesium ; Beige trash / Lucia Perillo --Red cluster, mid-summer ; Bee ; On waiting ; At six months ; Standing figure with knife edge ; Fall / Lia Purpura -- Diction ; Widow ; September 11 ; Repair ; Not now ; Letter of transmittal / Hilda Raz -- What was there to bring me to delight but to love and be loved? ; 25% pressure ; Post-romantic / Paisley Rekdal -- Creation alive ; Seeing the three Magi ; Capturing the scene ; Without violence / Pattiann Rogers -- Examination ; Dove ; Funny story ; Instrument of the highest / Mary Ruefle -- Blanduer ; The fabric of life ; Cut out for it ; The best of it ; Grazing horses ; Why must we struggle? ; Attention ; Forgetting / Kay Ryan -- I am peeling four pink grapefruit ; Alibi ; E ; V / Natasha Sajé -- Sex ; Tangerine ; Perseid ; When they know / Ruth L. Schwartz -- The shearing ; Bitter herb ; Homophobia ; Muse / Rebecca Seiferle -- SAT words with David Jr. in his father's bed ; I know what I saw last summer ; Dating men with children ; Palm Sunday in pew with ex / Heather Sellers -- "Gowned waiting" ; King David Memorial Gardens ; Black drum ; For the women of the All-Female Bookkeeping Department at H.G. Smithy's / Enid Shomer -- I loved the black cat ; Pastoral ; Shiners ; Sunflowers, Wyoming / Deborah Slicer -- After Persephone ; I don't miss it ; A hunger so honed ; Fire escape fantasy ; Credulity / Tracy K. Smith -- Addiction ; Cajun ; The lake ; What we found in mother's shed after the hurricane / Sheryl St. Germain -- Pantoum for a member of the wedding ; Goldfish : a diptych ; I speak in my mother's voice / Susan Terris --How to tell a true love story ; With my second husband, thinking of my first ; After the accident ; The American hotel ; Helping my daughter move into her first apartment / Sue Ellen Thompson -- Southern history ; Incident ; Taxonomy: De Español y de India Produce Mestizo ; Taxonomy: De Español y Negra Produce Mulato ; Taxonomy: The book of castas / Natasha Trethewey -- The givens ; Centaur ; Sorry ; Infant pearls ; Erotic energy ; Road tar ; To the reader : if you asked me / Chase Twichell -- Lexicon ; Muchas gracias ; Wintertide ; Under the wave of Kanagawa / Amy Uyematsu -- New words ; Nineteen ; Diptych: Open me carefully ; January 6 ; First snowfall in St. Paul / Katrina Vandenberg -- The hen ; The farmer ; Stone pond ; The last class ; Lesson ; Prayer / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- She kept me ; Port of entry ; House spiders ; Early snow / Judith Vollmer -- Bringing closure ; Lamentation after fourteen years ; Blessed are the sinful for they shall see God ; Something death cannot know / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley -- Why I believed, as a child, that people had sex in bathrooms ; 43 re de Saintonge ; On faith ; Bareback pantoum ; East India grill ; Villanelle ; The pick ; Cupid's hunting fields / Cecilia Woloch