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Contents: Foreword vii; Author’s Note ix; The Magdalen Laundries 3; Body Sonnets: I. Credibility 5; Guarded 6; The Cloistering of Mary Norris 9; The Heart of the Matter 13; Amazing Grace 15; Research Piece: “sub rosa” 18; Falling Away, a pathetic fallacy 19; Body Sonnets: II. Death of a Maiden 21; III. Island 22; IV. True to Form 23; V. Composition 24; VI. Afterwards, the Other 25; VII. Escape 26; Letters to a Girl on Leaving the Home 27; Research Piece: Entries in the Admissions Books of the Magdalen Asylum, Leeson Street, Est. 1767 for the Care of Young Protestant Women After a “First Fall” 30; Five Images of Bliss 32; Mad Song Stanzas for a Coming of Age 36; Research Piece: Conversation Regarding the Counseling Helpline FAOISEAMH, 2000 39; Season’s Greetings 40; Research Piece: Correspondence from “Mrs. Mahony” 43; A Bildungsroman for the Lads 44; Wild Fuchsia 48; Awakening 51; Fragments of the Shattering Glass 52; Her Last Immolation 56; Oh Rose—His Dark Secret Love 59; Research Piece: Notice in The Standard, January 11, 1935 63; Kimberlys on the Number Seventeen 64; Seasonal Villanelle on the Location of My Summer Flat in Forster Place, Forster Street, Galway (former site of the Magdalen Home) 68; The Glass Lake 69; Research Piece: Phone Call Following My Letter inThe Irish Times 71; The Butter Urn Resurrection 72; So Long Imagined 76; World View 79; Body Sonnets; VIII. The Magdalen 80; Notes 81; Acknowledgments 85; Resources 87

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