Poems and drafts of poems written and annotated by Julia McCarthy and later included in her book All the Names between. Includes poems: “A white room full of white birds,” “All the hidden places,” “A house waiting to be haunted,” “After midnight,” “Little fires” (later titled “Yellow birds in cages of water”), “The word no one knows” (later titled “A word no one knows”), “Spring equinox,” “The last silence,” “The animate breath” (also titled “Any place”), “Séance,” “A broken necklace,” “A red singing” also titled “How the dead speak,” “Flying the words home,” “Initiation,” “The book of obscure sorrows,” “A separate kingdom (white-nose fungus),” “Bat song,” “Last rites” also titled “The arsonist,” “When the stones wept,” “Where once there were stairs,” “Transmigration,” “Lorca’s ants,” “The earth’s thaumaturgy,” “My grief has waited for this” (later titled “As the day keeps”), “On the cusp of Spring,” “The long chain,” “The prescience of Spring” (later titled “Siamese forests”), “Somnambulant meadows” also titled “A simple beginning and end,” “A name I once wore,” “Field of language (silent film),” “When night is not night enough” (later titled “When night”), “Throwing the bones: moon song,” and “The word no one knows.”
Also contains poems “Pack,” “A conversation without words,” “Fool moon” also titled “The white spider,” “The rhythms of birds,” “The first nights,” “Playing the invisible,” “My life as a comma,” “Nest,” “Artificial limbs” also titled “Phantom limbs,” “Before I disappeared,” “Elsie’s field,” “On form,” “Black scissors,” “Longhorn spruce beetle,” “Where the unseen gathers,” “Feeding the dead,” “After Winter,” “Airmail or on finding a dead chickadee,” “Shadow play,” “Slap stick,” and “What holds up my house.”
