The Islands Project

by Healy, Eloise Klein

• ISBN13: 9781597090858
• ISBN10: 1597090859
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Red Hen Pr

Author Biography

Eloise Klein Healy is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

The Islands Project	p. 15
Hardscape	p. 16
The Grackle On The Lawn	p. 18
Audacious	p. 19
I Know The Word Is Figment, but I Think "Fragment"	p. 20
Sappho, The Essential Shape	p. 22
Wind In Mytilene	p. 24
Arrival	p. 25
The Living Fragments	p. 26
Wrapped in Sappho's Words	p. 28
Artemis To Aphrodite	p. 29
The Singing School	p. 30
Understanding Sappho The Musician	p. 32
Tutelage	p. 33
How Much Can I Have of Sappho?	p. 34
The Lyric In A Time of War	p. 38
The Isolates Aswirl With Life	p. 39
Self-Portrait As Young Eros	p. 40
Why I Call On Artemis, Not Aphrodite	p. 42
A Kind of Exile	p. 44
My Mothers	p. 46
The Elements	p. 48
Sappho's Fragments	p. 50
Maps of Things Relatively Permanent	p. 51
The Day After Meeting Her	p. 52
The Isle of Echo Park	p. 54
Sappho, You Must Have Had A Mother	p. 56
Flirt	p. 58
If There Were No Books	p. 59
One Poet To Another	p. 60
The Sapphists	p. 61
Love Poem From Afar	p. 62
Memo: Folk Art 101	p. 64
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Lived	p. 66
Hommage	p. 68
Lessons of a Saturday Afternoon	p. 69
Tripod Dog	p. 70
Flower Shop	p. 72
Because I was A Girl, For Christ's Sake	p. 74
My Sapphic Heritage	p. 75
So The Teacher Jumped Up On The Desk	p. 76
Greek Rhythm With Greens	p. 78
Recipe with Dogs	p. 80
Working Toward Sappho	p. 82
What I Would Want To Know	p. 88
For The Girl Child	p. 89
When Did A Self Begin?	p. 90
The Dry Air of Egypt	p. 104
"A Text of Broken Texts"	p. 105
Rites	p. 106
Not Disappearing	p. 114
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