This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." Acknowledgements
vii
The Singers
3(4)
I / Writing in a Time of Violence
That the Science of Cartography is Limited
7(2)
The Death of Reason
9(2)
March 1 1847. By the First Post
11(1)
In a Bad Light
12(2)
The Dolls Museum in Dublin
14(2)
Inscriptions
16(2)
Writing in a Time of Violence
18(51)
II / Legends
This Moment
23(1)
Love
24(2)
The Pomegranate
26(2)
Moths
28(2)
At the Glass Factory in Cavan Town
30(4)
A Sparrow Hawk in the Suburbs
34(2)
The Water Clock
36(2)
In which the Ancient History I Learn is Not My Own
38(4)
The Huguenot Graveyard at the Heart of the City
42(2)
The Parcel
44(2)
Lava Cameo
46(2)
The Source
48(2)
Legends
50(3)
III / Anna Liffey
Anna Liffey
53(8)
Story
61(2)
What Language Did
63(3)
We Are the Only Animals Who Do This
66(3)
A Woman Painted On a Leaf
69