Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Reading “Birch Bark” – How to Mourn the Loss of the Logos 3
7. An Aesthetics of Silence
8. Orpheus Is Dismembered 32
9. Writing Disaster: “Stars Who Implode into Silence” 41
10. “Moving to the Clear”: A Poetics of Process 59
11. The Dionysian Principle of Becoming 69
12. Silencing Myths of Identity
13. The Young Poet and the Fathers of Can.lit 97
14. The “Sphinx of the Unknown Land” Is a “Dainty Monster” 111
15. Odysseus Is Never Returning 127
16. Weavers in a Sea of Silence
17. An Archaeology of the “Forgotten Mother”: Lilith and Ishtar 151
18. The Art of Healing: Mary, Conredemptrix 184
19. “This Sweet Touch from the World” 217
20. Notes 225
21. Bibliography 249
22. Index 263