Annie Finch
- Ritual
Realizing I am a witch has been a life-long, gradual process, but if I had to choose one event to mark my entry into full witchy power, it would be the ritual I created to heal and transform after my abortion at age forty-three. At that time, my husband and
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023
- Spiraling Home
NEW DIRECTIONS, OCTOBER 2022, 241 PP. I FIRST READ the poet H.D.’s autobiographical novel HERmione when I was twenty-four. This was 1981; the book had just been rediscovered in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale and published by New Directions, more than a half century after
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023
- On Fishwives and Godsips
Viking, August 2023, 304 pp. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words reminds us that patriarchy is not only terrifyingly huge but nightmarishly granular. This spirited, scholarly book marshals a languageful of evidence to prove that our external bodies, actions, and rights are not all that have been colonized
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 3
FALL 2023