Poems and drafts of poems written and annotated by Julia McCarthy and later included in her book Stormthrower. Includes poems: “The invisible net,” “The meeting,” “Voice of the nest,” “In my dreams,” “Dancing a mandala,” “Stormthrower,” “Tsunami song,” “Her long sorrow,” “The blue eel,” “House of feathers,” “Stormthrower learns to speak,” “The invisible country” also titled “Notes from the invisible country,” “Meteor shower,” “Indigo city,” “A necklace of dogs,” “Hurricane,” “Tornado envy,” “Stormcellars,” “Stormthrower’s runes,” “Goat-riders,” “Facing north,” “The invisible country,” “Goat song,” “In the goldfinch garden,” "Fugue in pine," "When the light creased," "Letter to my younger sister" (later titled "The bus ride"), "Translating the ordinary," and "In the field at dusk."
Also contains poems “Death wears a scapular,” “Stormthrower’s alibi,” “The alchemy of laundry,” “My father-in-law,” “Dance of the herons,” “The heron in the stream,” “Prayer birds,” “The bait caster,” and “Voice of the nest.”
Includes correspondence received by McCarthy from Harvey Freeman and Richard Alapack.