Luminous poetry offering glimpses of intimacy

Colleen J. McElroy is a professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several poetry collections, including Traveling Music.      

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PART I

Pillow Book

Mother Love

Catching Gar

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves

Anniversary

Most Wanted

Sleeping with the Moon

Codex: Frostbite

Codex: Diagnosis

Drawing a Line in the Sand

Chilblains

Blues for Spring

In Praise of Older Women

PART II

You and Me and Veronica Lake

First Date after Fifty

The Company She Keeps

Love Letters

Boys Will Be

Lust

Blinded by the Moon

Remarks Beneath the Visiting Moon

Tango Moon

Heartbreak Moon on the Strait of Juan de Fuca

In the Blind Eye of Love's Shiny Moon

The Year I Found Myself Under Two Blue Moons

The Vixen Speaks to the Last Full Moon of the Century

PART III

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living

Duty

Electra

Bad Slam Broadway

Teaching G.I.s to Dance

What I Wish for when I Bother to Wish at All

Photolinen: La Push Beach

Heartache: Things to Watch for

Blues for the Slimes House

Light Reflecting Glass in the Evelyn Room

Telling Lies

Reckless Divas

Travelling Moon

Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern

PART IV

Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith

What Happened to the Rabbit

The Moon in the Dragon's Mouth

Wonder Woman

Fairy Tales

The Princess

Unlearning the Brothers Grimm

Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes

Song of the Red Kimono

Last Dance for the Copper Room Hot Springs Band

Vienna Layover

Moon Over Turtle Island

Moon Over Marakesh

Loving this Earth

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