Walpurgis Night

By Joan Cofrancesco

These are poems about Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Janis Joplin, Gertrude Stein, Li Po, reincarnation, love, and cats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546219880

Joan Cofrancesco

The author has published twenty books of poetry. She loves to hike in the Adirondacks and live in upstate New York. She had published books in Amazon Quarterly, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Kalliope, Sinister Wisdom, the Healing Muse, 13th Moon, and other literary journals. She loves to hike, travel, visit museums, and read and write poetry.

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Published by AuthorHouse  12/05/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1989-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1988-0 (e)

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Contents

Preface

Walpurgis Night (after Adrienne Rich)

9-Lives

Sestina On Six Words By Anne Sexton

Anne In the Prison Of Her Own Kitchen

Christmas Eve Poem

Field of Dreams

Madame Blavatsky

Pap Smear

Our Life Is Our Art

The Smells I Remember In the House Of My First Lover

Reincarnation

Reincarnation II

Adam Baum Eggs

Eastern Poem

Invitation To Breakfast

Getting Ready For A Poetry Reading (after Michael Lassell)

When you leave the reading, there will be a mad rush

Blocked Writer (after Terry Stokes)

Corporation

In Moderation (after Frank O’Hara)

Black Friday (a parody of Diane Wakoski’s Blue Monday)

Incense And Poetry (to Diane DiPrima)

Jill’s Fairy Tale

January 2⁹th, 1987

The Fury of Gretel (after Anne Sexton)

Poem To Confessional Poets (to Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath)

Anticipation

I Have Seen A Woman Reading Alone In Her Chair

Dear Writer,

Sitting Reading William Carlos Williams

Hiking Next To Mt. St. Helens (after Gary Snyder)

Woman

Restless Night (to