Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework Book

	"The female seer will burn upon this pyre"	1
	How I learned to sweep	2
	Down on my knees	4
	The hurricane sisters work regardless	5
	Romantic	6
	Kitchens : 1959	7
	Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity	9
	In waking words	10
	The prodigal daughter	11
	Modern love	14
	Pittsburgh poem	15
	Dictionary for the new century	16
	What they did by lamplight	18
	Sewing	19
	Cooking catalogue	20
	Desert flowers	21
	Part of a larger country	23
	Five-year plan	25
	The floral apron	27
	A man in my bed like cracker crumbs	28
	Quilting	29
	Mother, a young wife learns to sew	30
	New house	31
	Grating parmesan	32
	Broom	34
	The size of a bed sheet	37
	The ugly step sister	38
	Good woman	40
	Sweeping heaven	42
	Peonies	43
	After the miscarriage	46
	Sweet hour	47
	Upper peninsula landscape with aunts	49
	Perhaps the world ends here	52
	Feeding frenzy	53
	Thursday afternoon : life is sweet	55
	Cayenne	56
	Domestic humiliation	58
	Kitchen	59
	Plenty	60
	What I learned from my mother	62
	When our women go crazy	63
	Dinner	64
	Housekeeping in a dream	66
	The visibility of spirits	68
	Moving furniture	70
	How my mother-in-law instructed me in slaughter	72
	Maid	73
	Ham and the moon	74
	Giving the house away	76
	Brick	77
	Covered dish	79
	Clothesline	80
	Spots	82
	The idea of housework	83
	Reetika arranges my closet	84
	May mowing clover	86
	Vegetable love	89
	God scrubs the tub	91
	God vacuums the pool	91
	God packs lunches	91
	Lemons	92
	What lies beneath	94
	Home remedy	95
	Third stair, seventh stair, landing	96
	Some women marry houses	98
	Convolvulus tricolor	100
	The days of my mother	103
	At thirty	104
	Bread	106
	The shekhinah as mute	107
	Grief comes in smallest ways	108
	Sunday baking	110
	The soup	111
	Cooking lesson	112
	All the soups	113
	Song of the cook	114
	What I want to make for you	115
	Duties and vocations	116
	Wintering	117
	Furious cooking	118
	In the kitchen dancing to Kitty Wells	120
	One quick quiz	121
	Purpose	123
	Entropy	125
	The sinking	127
	Immaculate lives	128
	A poet in the house	130
	The sky-blue dress	131
	Plum crazy	134
	Household muse	137
	Housekeeping	138
	Coming home	140
	Hospital corners	141
	Western holly stove	143
	Date nut bread	145
	Day's end	146
	The dinner guest	147
	Domestic work, 1937	149
	Housekeeping	150
	The history of women	151
	Canning cellar, early sixties	153
	Back to catfish	154
	The lady on the cover of Family circle	156
	Starting from scratch	158
	Quilt	159
	Prayer	161