The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter (31 page)

“Paranoia” is reprinted from
Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand
by Susan Hahn. Reprinted with permission of author. Published by the University of Chicago Press, 1991.

“The Crosses” was originally published as “The Crosses II” and is reprinted from
The Note She Left
by Susan Hahn. Reprinted with permission of author. Published by Northwestern University Press, 2008. This poem was first published in
New England Review.

“The Soul's Aerial View Of The Burial” is reprinted from
Incontinence
by Susan Hahn. Reprinted with permission of author. Published by the University of Chicago Press, 1993.

“Clean” is reprinted from
The Note She Left
by Susan Hahn. Reprinted with permission of author. Published by Northwestern University Press, 2008. This poem was first published in the
Atlantic Monthly.

“Widdershins III” was originally published as “Widdershins XII” and is reprinted from
The Note She Left
by Susan Hahn. Reprinted with permission of author. Published by Northwestern University Press, 2008. This poem was first published in
Boulevard.

C
HAPTERS

“Trichotillomania,”
Michigan Quarterly Review,
Vol. XLV, Number 3, Summer 2006.

“No Sad Songs Sung Here,”
Michigan Quarterly Review,
Vol. XLVII, Number 1, Winter 2008.

“The Devil's Legs,”
Boulevard,
Vol. 26, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall 2010.

“Yom Kippur Night Dance,”
The Kenyon Review,
Vol. XXVII, Number 3, Summer 2005.

“Confession,”
Boulevard,
Vol. 23, Numbers 2 & 3, Spring 2008.

“The Lovers,”
The Kenyon Review,
Vol. XXX, Number 1, Winter 2008.

“If I Set up the Chairs,”
Fifth Wednesday Journal,
Issue 7, Fall 2010.

During a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, I had the time to write my first prose, which turned out to be a version of the chapter “Yom Kippur Night Dance,” setting in motion this book's journey. I am unendingly grateful to the Foundation for the myriad of gifts that productive year of writing brought me.

POETRY

Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand

Incontinence

Melancholia, et cetera

Confession

Holiday

Mother in Summer

Self/Pity

The Scarlet Ibis

The Note She Left

PLAYS

Golf

The Scarlet Ibis