Sleeping with one eye open Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Waking Myths, Waking Words
	The Woman Who Slept with One Eye Open: Notes on Being a Writer	3
	Poetry Began Me	13
	Inking In the Myth	21
	Listening for the Singing Goose	29
	Manipulations in the Darkroom	35
	Fire, Wax, Smoke	44
	Five A.M.: Writing as Ritual	50
2	Writing in No-Time
	Writing in No-Time	55
	Excerpts from a Talk by Tillie Olsen	64
	Doing What You Will Do: An Interview with Lucille Clifton by Marilyn Kallet	80
	Hedging Bets on Motherhood	86
	The Artist as Single Mother	94
	Writing Between Dreams	100
	Writing Fellini	103
	Walking into Poetry	110
	The Prime Necessity	116
3	Sounds of Hazard and Survival
	Writing the Impossible	121
	The Elephant in My Living Room: Depression and the Writing Life	126
	Selective Listening and Resistance: A Writer's Capacity to Thrive	130
	The Glass Cage	135
	Sounds of Hazard and Survival	145
	Finding the Groove	151
4	The Crucible of Family
	The Writer in the Family	155
	The Pure Place	167
	Why Write?	184
	Earning Virginia Woolf's Room	189
	Rescue from Within: Do You Wish to Save?	200
	My Father's Legacy, or Why I Write	209
	Contributors	215