Foreword
Note on the Text
Author's Note

The Boston Poems
Cups 1-12
The Park
The Faerie Queene
The Moth Poem
Image-Nations -4
Les Chiméres
Charms
Great Companion: Pindar
Image-Nations 5-14 and Uncollected Poems
Streams I
Syntax
Pell Mell
Great Companion: Robert Duncan
Streams II
Exody
Notes
Great Companion: Dante Alighiere
Wanders
So
Oh!

Afterword
Index of Titles and First Lines

“A carefully nuanced, serene explanation of one of the most puzzling aspects of medieval culture.”—New York Times Book Review

“What it contributes to our understanding of gender in the language and practice of spirituality transcends any critical rubric.”—Speculum

“A rich, positive and thoughtful description of the way some medieval women managed to control and develop their own subjectivities and social roles.”—Women’s Review of Books

The 1988 Governor's Writers Award
1989 Philip Schaff Prize, The American Society of Church History