Body Painting

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Body Painting Poems S JANE HILBERRY Red Hen Press Los Angeles Body Painting Copyright © 2005 by Jane Hilberry ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Cover images: Photography by Christoper Voelker, © 2005 by Christoper Voelker Body painting by Melanie Manson and Eli Crawford Book design by Michael Vukadinovich Cover Design by Mark E. Cull ISBN: 1-59709-013-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004117567 Published by Red Hen Press The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department,California Arts Council , Los Angeles County Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Acknowledgments Thanks to the editors of the magazines in which the following poems previously appeared, sometimes in different versions: Calyx: “Crazy Jane Goes to Painting Class.” Reprinted in Fierce Brightness: TwentyFiveYears ofWomen’s Poetry.Calyx Books, 2002; Denver Quarterly Review: “TheVisitation ”; Eleventh Muse: “Joy” (published as “A Shell, for a Friend Who Lives by the Sea”); Flyway: “Hush,” “Radish”; Grrrrr:A Collection of Poems about Bears,Arctos Press: “Crazy Jane Meets a Bear”; High Plains Literary Review:“Fireweed”; Hudson Review: “The Car Salesman,” “The Moment”; Inhabiting the Body:A Collection of Poetry and Art byWomen.Moon Journal Press, 2002: “Elegant”; The Journal: “Sand”; Lake Effect: “Crazy Jane Sleeps on Page C of the Logician’s Dictionary” and “We Say”; Many Mountains Moving: “Crazy Jane Defaults on Her Loan”; Michigan Quarterly Review: “Relativity”; Mid-American Review: “Crazy JaneTalks with Bones”; Virginia Quarterly Review: “Train”; Women’s Review of Books: “Blizzard” and “In Arabic” A number of these poems appeared in a chapbook titled The Girl with the Pearl Earring, published originally byThe Press at Colorado College (1989) and reprinted by JonesAlley Press (1995). My thanks to Colorado College for a Benezet Grant, a Jackson Fellowship, and many hours of release time which allowed me to work on these poems. Thanks also to the Colorado Council on the Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. I have received advice and support from more people than I can acknowledge. You know who you are! I want especially to thank my Colorado Springs community , Diane, Mary Lou, Lynn, Larry, David and Dick; my English Department friends & colleagues; the members of What Would Lorca Do?; my teachers Roger Mitchell and Ellen BryantVoigt; Jim Moore; Kate Holaday; and, with love, my parents Conrad and Marion Hilberry and my sisters Marilyn Day and Ann Hilberry. My apologies toYeats. This page intentionally left blank. ...