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To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.

Ellen Bryant Voigt designed - and teaches at - the first low-residency MFA program for writers, at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments

11

(4)

From Claiming Kin (1976)

The Hen

15

(1)

Harvest

16

(1)

Dialogue: Poetics

17

(2)

Stork

19

(1)

Damage

20

(1)

The Letter

21

(1)

The Visit

22

(1)

Snakeskin

23

(2)

Tropics

25

(4)

From The Forces of Plenty (1983)

Blue Ridge

29

(3)

A Fugue

32

(4)

The Happiness Poems

36

(2)

Talking the Fire Out

38

(6)

For My Father

44

(3)

Year's End

47

(2)

Liebesgedicht

49

(1)

Jug Brook

50

(1)

Sweet Everlasting

51

(6)

From The Lotus Flowers (1987)

The Last Class

57

(2)

Visiting the Graves

59

(1)

The Photograph

60

(1)

The Field Trip

61

(2)

The Trust

63

(1)

The Farmer

64

(2)

Bright Leaf

66

(2)

Amaryllis

68

(2)

Nightshade

70

(1)

The Waterfall

71

(2)

Dancing with Poets

73

(2)

Feast Day

75

(2)

Short Story

77

(2)

Stone Pond

79

(1)

The Lotus Flowers

80

(5)

From Two Trees (1992)

The Innocents

85

(1)

At the Piano

86

(2)

Variations: At the Piano

88

(5)

After Keats

93

(1)

Woman Who Weeps

94

(2)

Two Trees

96

(2)

Variations: Two Trees

98

(7)

Soft Cloud Passing

105

(3)

Effort at Speech

108

(2)

Song and Story

110

(3)

From Kyrie (1995)

113

(119)

From Shadow of Heaven (2002)

Largesse

153

(2)

Winter Field

155

(1)

Long Marriage

156

(2)

Lesson

158

(1)

Himalaya

159

(2)

High Winds Flare Up and the Old House Shudders

161

(1)

The Garden, Spring, the Hawk

162

(15)

The Art of Distance

177

(16)

Horace: Ode I.xxxiv

193

(1)

Autumn in the Yard We Planted

194

(1)

Practice

195

(4)

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The Feeder

199

(10)

Deathbed

209

(1)

The Hive

210

(2)

Harvesting the Cows

212

(3)

Rubato

215

(10)

Redbud

225

(3)

The Tattered Dress

228

(1)

Prayer

229

(2)

Adagio

231

(1)

Messenger

232

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