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Preface | p. 13 |
Athene's Song | p. 17 |
From the Painting Back from Market by Chardin | p. 18 |
New Territory | p. 19 |
After the Irish of Aodghan O'Rathaille | p. 20 |
The Flight of the Earls | p. 21 |
A Cynic at Kilmainham Jail | p. 22 |
Belfast vs. Dublin | p. 23 |
Yeats in Civil War | p. 24 |
The Poets | p. 25 |
Mirages | p. 26 |
The Pilgrim | p. 27 |
Migration | p. 28 |
Three Songs for a Legend: 1. A Lullaby for Lir's Son | p. 29 |
Three Songs for a Legend: 2. The Malediction | p. 30 |
Three Songs for a Legend: 3. Elegy for a Youth Changed to a Swan | p. 31 |
The King and the Troubadour | p. 32 |
Requiem for a Personal Friend | p. 34 |
The Winning of Etain | p. 35 |
Dedication: The Other Woman and the Novelist | p. 47 |
The War Horse | p. 48 |
The Famine Road | p. 50 |
Child of Our Time | p. 52 |
The Hanging Judge | p. 53 |
A Soldier's Son | p. 55 |
The Greek Experience | p. 56 |
The Laws of Love | p. 58 |
Sisters | p. 60 |
O Fons Bandusiae | p. 65 |
Chorus of the Shadows | p. 66 |
From the Irish of Pangur Ban | p. 67 |
The Atlantic Ocean | p. 69 |
Conversation with an Inspector of Taxes about Poetry | p. 71 |
Ode to Suburbia | p. 77 |
Naoise at Four | p. 79 |
Cyclist with Cut Branches | p. 80 |
Song | p. 81 |
The Botanic Gardens | p. 82 |
Prisoners | p. 83 |
Ready for Flight | p. 84 |
Anon | p. 85 |
Suburban Woman | p. 86 |
Tirade for the Mimic Muse | p. 91 |
In Her Own Image | p. 93 |
In His Own Image | p. 94 |
Anorexic | p. 96 |
Mastectomy | p. 98 |
Solitary | p. 100 |
Menses | p. 102 |
Witching | p. 104 |
Exhibitionist | p. 107 |
Making Up | p. 110 |
Degas's Laundresses | p. 115 |
Woman in Kitchen | p. 117 |
A Ballad of Beauty and Time | p. 118 |
It's a Woman's World | p. 121 |
Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark | p. 123 |
The New Pastoral | p. 125 |
The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish | p. 126 |
The Woman Changes Her Skin | p. 128 |
Pose | p. 130 |
Patchwork | p. 131 |
Lights | p. 133 |
Domestic Interior: 1. Night Feed | p. 135 |
Domestic Interior: 2. Monotony | p. 137 |
Domestic Interior: 3. Hymn | p. 139 |
Domestic Interior: 4. Partings | p. 140 |
Domestic Interior: 5. Energies | p. 141 |
Domestic Interior: 6. The Muse Mother | p. 142 |
Domestic Interior: 7. Endings | p. 144 |
Domestic Interior: 8. In the Garden | p. 145 |
Domestic Interior: 9. After a Childhood Away from Ireland | p. 147 |
Domestic Interior: 10. Fruit on a Straight-Sided Tray | p. 149 |
Domestic Interior: 11. Domestic Interior | p. 150 |
I Remember | p. 155 |
Mise Eire | p. 156 |
Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening | p. 158 |
The Oral Tradition | p. 160 |
Fever | p. 163 |
The Unlived Life | p. 165 |
Lace | p. 167 |
The Bottle Garden | p. 169 |
Suburban Woman: A Detail | p. 170 |
The Briar Rose | p. 172 |
The Women | p. 173 |
Nocturne | p. 175 |
The Fire in Our Neighborhood | p. 176 |
On Holiday | p. 177 |
Growing Up | p. 178 |
There and Back | p. 179 |
The Wild Spray | p. 180 |
The Journey | p. 182 |
Envoi | p. 186 |
Listen. This Is the Noise of Myth | p. 187 |
An Irish Childhood in England: 1951 | p. 190 |
Fond Memory | p. 192 |
Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland | p. 193 |
The Emigrant Irish | p. 194 |
Tirade for the Lyric Muse | p. 195 |
The Woman Takes Her Revenge on the Moon | p. 197 |
The Glass King | p. 199 |
Index | p. 201 |
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