Tupelo Press

Calendars Book

Description

To celebrate the Spring Equinox, we’re releasing the Audio CD of Annie Finch’s memorable and musical book of poetry, Calendars, first published by Tupelo in 2003 and one of our perennial bestsellers.

Calendars is the first of a series of audio books produced by Tupelo Press from our books of contemporary poetry and literary prose. The Calendars CD includes Annie Finch reading all of the poems in the book, with musical interludes played on Celtic harp with Anglo-Saxon tunings by Mac Ritchey of the ensemble 35th Parallel.

• Introductory price for the CD alone: $12.00
• Special offer: $20.00 book and CD combination set, available only through www.tupelopress.org

"With paradoxical economy and fine-tuned irony, Annie Finch's poems embody the seductive, treacherous — and redemptive — nature of language itself. Her poems remind us how the condition of music re-creates the condition of thought."

The highly musical voice of Annie Finch brings to life her exquisite poems of love, time, sensuality, and the earth-centered spirituality of our era. Known internationally for her expertise in meter, rhyme, and poetry's sounds, Finch has given hundreds of readings across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In this Audio CD she shares her classic collection Calendars as it was meant to be heard. If the sound of a poem is its essence, this is the quintessential version of the book Calendars.

To hear samples of Annie Finch reading poems from Calendars, visit the Annie Finch page at PoetrySpeaks.

1.  Foreword
   Landing Under Water
2.  Landing Under Water, I See Roots
3.  Moon
4.  The Menstrual Hut
5.  Letter for Emily Dickinson
6.  To Vivienne Eliot
7.  Watching the Oregon Whale
   Name
8.  Winter Solstice Chant
9.  Blue Willows
10.  Name
11.  Elegy for My Father
12.  Final Autumn
13.  Mowing
14.  Forest-Falling
15.  Without a Bird
16.  Boothbay Harbor
17.  Caribou Kitchen
    Calendars
18.  Imbolc Chant
19.  Calendars
    Interpenetrate
20.  A Seed for Spring Equinox
21.  Interpenetrate
22.  The Woman on the Beach
23.  Chain of Women
24.  A Carol for Carolyn
25.  Faces With Poulenc
26.  Ghazal for a Poetess
27.  Lamia to Lycius
28.  The Intellect of Woman
    Epithalamium
29.  A Wedding on Earth
    Two Bodies
30.  Summer Solstice Chant
31.  Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle
32.  Conversation
33.  Two Bodies
34.  A Valentine for Hands
35.  The Coming Mirrors
36.  Meeting Mammoth Cave
37.  Butterfly Lullaby
38.  Belly
39.  Over Dark Arches
40.  Churching
    Earth Goddess and Sky God
41.  Lammas Chant
42.  Earth Goddess and Sky God
43.  Iowa Barn
44.  Desire for Quiet
45.  Hostage Wildflowers
46.  A Dance for the Inland Sea
47.  The August Porch
48.  Wild Yeasts
49.  Afterword