Sarah Fox co-imagines the Center for Visionary Poetics, serves as a doula, and is a teacher of poetry and creative writing. She contributes posts on feminism, mysticism, astrology, and poetics to the blog Montevidayo and has won grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board, among others. Coffee House Press published her debut collection, Because Why, in 2006.

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CONTENTS
Preface
Difficulty at the Beginning ......7
One: Object Relations
Fata Morgana ......14
Mathematics in Everyday Life ......15
The Clinging, Fire ......17
The Joyous, Lake ......19
Before Completion ......22
The Family (The Clan) ......24
Daughter Object ......26
Transitional Object ......28
Muse Object ......31
Wife Object ......33
Two: Doctrine of Signatures
Dispersion [Dissolution] ......35
My Helmet: A Sonnet ......38
The Marrying Maiden ......39
Moms vs. Dads ......42
After Completion ......43
My Antler ......46
The Arousing (Shock, Thunder) ......49
My Sword Loves Me ......52
Biting Through / {tl;dr} ......53
Three: COM(M)A ......55
(i)
I Slid Out of My Mother's Body ......55
Exogeny ......55
Eros, Indiscriminate ......55
Coma ......56
Doll Box ......56
A Woman Waits for Me ......56
Brain Letter ......57
Pawn ......57
Stirring Interior ......57
Satellite ......58
(ii)
Dr. Cronus ......58
Disease ......58
Born in Prison ......59
Quarantine ......59
I Don't Want ......60
Side Effects ......60
Dying of Darkness ......61
Satchidananda ......61
(iii)
Merge ......62
Raccoon ......62
Poetry as Magic ......63
Transference ......63
Bondage ......63
Centrifuge ......64
The Other Husband ......64
Couch ......65
Ambassador ......65
Kairos ......66
Scream ......66
(iv)
The More Cloudy Places ......67
Poison Path ......67
Keeping it Real ......67
Skull Collector ......68
Kula ......68
Sacrifice ......69
Inside the Deer ......69
Four: The Tower
A Concept of Zero ......70
[Essay on My Daughter] ......74
Essay on My Tower ......75
Essay on My Tower (2) ......76
Essay on My Memory ......79
Essay on My Father ......83
Essay on Increase ......85
Five: The Caldron
Naked ......86
Owl ......94
Preponderance of the Small ......96
Writ on Water ......101
Anthem ......102
I'd Rather Be Here ......107
The First Flag (?)......109
Postnatural ......110

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