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Spells
WESLEYAN POETRY
ALSO BY ANNIE FINCH
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Spells
NEW & SELECTED POEMS
ANNIE FINCH
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2013 Annie Finch
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Wesleyan University Press is a member of the
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meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.
This project is supported in part by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finch, Annie, 1956–
[Poems. Selections]
Spells: new and selected poems /
Annie Finch.—First edition.
pages cm.—(Wesleyan Poetry Series)
ISBN 978-0-8195-7269-1 (cloth: alk. paper)—
ISBN 978-0-8195-7363-6 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3556.I448S64 2013
811’.54—dc23
2012044385
5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle, 20
Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant, 31