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Irene McKinney's work of three decades is represented here. Her language is direct, vernacular, forceful, and unmistakable. These poems are directed to a listener, not overheard, in a tone and with a stance of honest intimacy. These poems occur in the rhythm of speech, not of written discourse. From the beginning, McKinney has been aware of the modulations of the spoken voice, and much of the power of these poems derives from that awareness. Her themes are the ancient ones: connections with the land, with animals, with other people, with loss, with joy. Her work should be seen in the context of such poets as Denise Levertov, Wislawa Symborska, or Ruth Stone, who worked in a tradition of independent spirit powered by clarity, compassion, and a willingness to take unpopular stances. These poems are rooted in a consciousness that draws on a wide range of poetic and spiritual traditions, but there is a remarkable consistence of concerns over these three decades.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments
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  1. Section 1. The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap
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  1. Night Mare
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  1. The Animals
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  1. Peaches
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  1. Summer Storm In The Animal Graveyard
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  1. Groundhog
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  1. Open Road
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  1. Animal Oils
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  1. Waking Up Sweating
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  1. Sleeping Beauty
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  1. After Talk, 3 A.M.
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  1. After Lear
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  1. The Durrett Farm, West Virginia: A Map
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  1. Potatoes
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  1. The Rite
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  1. That Other Death
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  1. Logics
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  1. A Message
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  1. Truckstop
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  1. Section 2. Quick Fire and Slow Fire
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  1. Preliminary Invocation
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  1. The Invention of Mercy
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  1. An Invitation to My Body
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  1. Self-Portrait at 19
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  1. A Gift for Emily Dickinson on the Fourth of July
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  1. Five Asanas
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  1. For Women Who Have Been Patient All Their Lives
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  1. Breathing
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  1. Mount Storm Aspiring
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  1. Anger’s Visit
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  1. How This Happened
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  1. The Anguish Lessons
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  1. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
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  1. Right
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  1. Section 3. Six O’Clock Mine Report
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  1. Twilight in West Virginia: Six O’Clock Mine Report
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  1. A Freshet in Brattleboro
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  1. Potts Farm, Summer 1955
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  1. The Ruined House of the Photographer
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  1. Starlings in the Walls at Night
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  1. Before Spring
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  1. Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe
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  1. The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
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  1. Little Boats
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  1. Deep Mining
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  1. Sunday Morning, 1950
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  1. Her Fascicles
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  1. She Speaks of Her Sister
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  1. The Birds
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  1. Her Name
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  1. Her Poem
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  1. She Says Zero
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  1. To His Wife
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  1. She Speaks to the Visitor at the Dickinson Homestead
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  1. Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
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  1. No Elegy
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  1. Mary Shelley: The Miscarriage
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  1. Section 4. Vivid Companion
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  1. Our Lady Of The Iguanas
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  1. Grey’s Anatomy
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  1. The Surgery
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  1. Ravi Sings
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  1. Fame
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  1. Constant Companion
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  1. Adobe
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  1. Mary Cragin: The Honeymoon, 1834
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  1. Catherine Baker: Arrival At Oneida Creek, 1848
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  1. The Testimony of Harriet Worden, 1850
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  1. Sarah Burt: The Doll Burning, 1851
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  1. Solitude In The Oneida Community: Victor Cragin Noyes, 1866
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  1. Professor Mears of Hamilton College Speaks To The Court
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  1. The Tree of Life Tapestry: Jessie Kinsley, 1927
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  1. Hiding
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  1. Stained
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  1. Filthy Weather
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  1. Three Three Three
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  1. Immanent
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  1. Covering Up
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  1. Full Moon: Sitting Up Late At My Father’s Bedside
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  1. Monkey Heart
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  1. Atavistic
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  1. Woods Burning
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  1. Homage to Roy Orbison
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  1. Homage to Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven
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  1. Handholds
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  1. Face
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  1. Illuminated Manuscript
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  1. At 24
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  1. Viridian Days
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  1. Ready
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