Contents
Preface
I. Origins
Not "I"
Dirt's Minion
Teaching Taste, Making Soul
Filthy
Water Rites
II. The Sestina
Sacred and Profane: The Sestina as Rite
Ardor and the Sestina
Destruction and the Blossom: The Sestina in War
III. Litany
All Hail Litany: Three Variations
IV. Illustrious Forebears
Marianne Moore's Prose: Antithesis as Modus Operandi
Akhmatova: The Leper's Rattle
W. S. Merwin's "One Story": A Tribute
V. Poetry as a Way of Witnessing
The Poetry of Witness: Then, and Now
Peripatetic Witnesses: Karen Swenson and Mary Crow
The Mythic Dimension of Witness: Berdeshevsky
Hacker and Khoury-Gata: Poets in a Time of War
Ingrid Wendt: Nonviolent Woman Warrior
VI. Poetry and the Healing Arts
Poetry and the Healing Arts: Collaboration
Violence and Dignity
Beautiful Trouble
Madurai: Temple Beggar
We Are So Vast
Two Motion Fast Happening God
Romola: Renegade in the People's Republic of China