| Description |
1 online resource (83 pages) |
| Series |
Akron series in poetry |
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Akron series in poetry.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- I. -- Spell for a Lover -- Witch in Winter -- Witch as Healer -- Witch's Homunculus -- Witch to Familiar -- Witch Doctrine: On Giving Prescriptions -- Witch Questions the So-Called Higher Power -- Witch Lullaby -- Witch Dreams of Happiness -- Witch as La Belle Dame -- Witch Doctrine: Comfort -- Final Witch Doctrine -- Witch Passing the Graveyard -- Southern Witch Doctrine on the Resurrection -- Witch after Heartbreak -- Witch Kills the Familiar -- II. -- Spell for a Daughter -- Dream of Flat Hills -- To the Salt Gator -- Dear Ghost: -- Collector of Luck |
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Where to Look for Ghosts -- Widow: Out-of-Body Experience -- Medium in the Morning -- Personal Cleansings -- Medium after Producing the Ectoplasm -- Medium after Trances -- Farm Widows, Night Hour -- Medium on the Dietary Habits of the Dead -- On Southern Summer Ghosts -- Medium Dreams of Marriage -- On Being Prolific -- A Dear John Letter -- Medium on the Sleeping Arrangements of the Dead -- Spell for Removals -- III. -- How to Love a House -- Ghost to Apprentice -- The House Says I Love You -- The Thirst of the Prior Inhabitants -- Ghost as Housekeeper -- Ghost in a Dessert Dish |
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Ghost Encounter -- Ghost Trapped in the Attic, Summer Afternoon -- Woman in the Diorama -- Suicide Ghost -- Hunter -- Ghost Coming to Terms -- The Anniversary Dream -- After the Butchering -- A Shadow Left My Party -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"Annah Browning's poetry collection Witch Doctrine is a gothic instruction manual for how to exist in a heartbreaking world. Through a series of spell poems and a cast of haunting personas-including a sentient house, a mentoring witch, and a housekeeping ghost-Browning leads the reader in dark and slyly humorous mediations on mortality, loss, feminist power, and survival: "you'll take / another branch for the fire / and you will make it.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Poetry
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Witchcraft.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019046245 |
| ISBN |
9781629221656 |
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1629221651 |
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9781629221663 |
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162922166X |
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