Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

The poet's mysterious voice moves through this book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. 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.