Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

Blessing on the Poets --
Homebirth --
Abortion Spell --
Your Land --
Stone and Cloth and Paper --
The Naming --
Frost's Grave --
Tarot : The Magician Card --
Keys --
Beach of Edges --
Earth Day --
Revelry --
Architecture --
Watching the Whale --
Paravaledellentine : A Paradelle --
Wild Yeasts --
Earth Goddess and Sky God --
Conversation --
Calendars --
Over Dark Arches --
A Carol for Carolyn --
Chain of Women --
Ghazal for a Poetess --
Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant --
Butterfly Lullaby --
Intimations of Pregnancy --
Walk with Me --
Two Bodies --
Final Autumn Elegy for My Father --
Samhain --
Winter Solstice Chant --
Imbolc Dance --
A Seed for Spring Equinox --
A Wreath for Beltane --
Summer Solstice Chant --
Lammas --
A Mabon Crown --
Letter for Emily Dickinson --
A Dance for the Inland Sea --
Iowa Barn --
Bluet --
Landing Under Water, I See Roots --
Changing Woman --
Spider Woman --
Aphrodite --
Eve --
Inanna --
Coatlique --
Nut --
Brigid --
Rhiannon --
Running in Church --
Blood Charm : From the Menstrual Hut --
Encounter --
Gulf War and Child : A Curse --
Being a Constellation --
My Raptor --
The Wish for Eyes --
The Last Mermother --
Tribute --
The Intellect of Woman --
Moon --
Courtship --
Zaraf's Star --
Goddess --
Pearl --
Interpenetrate --
Strangers --
Insect --
The Grim Garden --
Inside the Violet --
Blue Willow --
Speak Softly --
The Door --
No Snake --
A Small Sound in the Dark Woods --
Such Husks --
Now in November --
Song of the Sorry Side --
Awful Friend --
Nightmare --
Resolution --
Another Pregnant Woman Remembers Incest --
Tongue of Language --
Dusk --
Lesson from a Rock --
Reconciliation Bread --
Night Rain --
Fawns --
An Imaginary Companion --
The Ages' Years : A Dialogue --
Harvest Seam --
Sundown --
Shallow Sky --
Childless --
Wrist-Bracelet --
Wine-Glass Woman --
Lady Bug --
A Wreath of Time --
She That --
From The Encyclopedia of Scotland --
Invocation --
One, from "Rockwood" --
The Body of the Thing, from "Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat" --
The August Porch --
Spells --
A Dusk Song --
In Cities, Be Alert --
List --
Still Life --
Coy Mistress --
When Daphne Ran --
Lucid Waking --
Sapphics for Patience --
Another Reluctance --
A Way to See --
First Poem --
Caribou Kitchen --
"Creation Story," excerpted and adapted from Sheba in Eden --
From The Mermaid Tragedy --
From Marina Tsvetaeva : A Captive Spirit --
From Among the Goddesses : An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams --
From Wolf Song --
The Seafarer --
Louise Labé --
Sonnet 2 [Handsome Brown Eyes] --
Sonnet 5 [Bright Venus] --
Sonnet 13 [The Ivy and the Tree] --
Sonnet 14 [The Point of Death] --
Sonnet 16 [Impotence] --
Sonnet 18 [Kiss Me Again] --
Sonnet 19 [A Meeting with Diana] --
Sonnet 21 [Love Forces My Judgment] --
Sonnet 23 [The Tangle] --
Anna Akhmatova --
The White Bird --
Cleopatra --
Lot's Wife --
Andrée Chedid --
Thirst --
In Praise of Emptiness --
A Fragment of Sappho.