CONTENTS:

Part I: Give Sorrow Words

Coming to Terms
Two Poems of the Sea
I. The Dawning
II. To a Minor Goddess
The Flying Moment
Vinegar Tree
O
The Measure of Their Days
The Crag
Intervals

Part II: Driving Back Shadows

On a Line from Millay
A Fieldstone Fence
Haiku
The Ovenbird
Breva
Bequeathal
November
Winterbourne

Part III: The Oldest Sins

SALIGIA: Seven Deadly Sonnets:

I. Superbia
II. Acedia
III. Luxuria
IV. Invidia
V. Gula
VI. Ira
VII. Avaritia

Part IV: With Mirth and Laughter

Sonnet Love
The Bard
All These Words
A Mother's Kyrielle
When
Prayer on December 26th
Rush Hour Sonondilla
She
In Retrospect

Part V: A Smack of All Neighbouring Languages

French: Romantisme québécois:

Pamphile Le May: My Childhood Home
Louis-Honoré Fréchette: Niagara
Louis Dantin: The Stars
Albert Lozeau: It's Raining
Émile Nelligan: The Passerby

Spanish: Modernismo hispanoamericano:

María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira: The Mysterious Star
Delmira Agustini: The Wonderful Boat
Gabriela Mistral: The Sonnets of Death (I)
Alfonsina Storni: Inheritance
Juana de Ibarbourou: Rebel

Part VI: Glad and Sorry Seasons

The Lost Villages: Inundation Day
Upheavals
Heartwood
The Red Beads
Ragbag
Beach Dogs
Críonnacht
Waiting
Edward Hopper's Automat

Notes