Witch doctrine / Annah Browning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browning, Annah, author.

Series:

Akron series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Poetry.

Witchcraft.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Annah Browning's poetry collection Witch Doctrine is a gothic instruction manual for how to exist in a heartbreaking world. Through a series of spell poems and a cast of haunting personas-including a sentient house, a mentoring witch, and a housekeeping ghost-Browning leads the reader in dark and slyly humorous mediations on mortality, loss, feminist power, and survival: "you'll take / another branch for the fire / and you will make it.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I

Spell for a Lover p. 3

Witch in Winter p. 4

Witch as Healer p. 5

Witch's Homunculus p. 7

Witch to Familiar p. 9

Witch Doctrine: On Giving Prescriptions p. 11

Witch Questions the So-Called Higher Power p. 12

Witch Lullaby p. 14

Witch Dreams of Happiness p. 15

Witch as La Belle Dame p. 16

Witch Doctrine: Comfort p. 17

Final Witch Doctrine p. 18

Witch Passing the Graveyard p. 20

Southern Witch Doctrine on the Resurrection p. 21

Witch after Heartbreak p. 23

Witch Kills the Familiar p. 24

II

Spell for a Daughter p. 27

Dream of Flat Hills p. 28

To the Salt Gator p. 29

Dear Ghost: p. 30

Collector of Luck p. 31

Where to Look for Ghosts p. 33

Widow: Out-of-Body Experience p. 34

Medium in the Morning p. 36

Personal Cleansings p. 38

Medium after Producing the Ectoplasm p. 39

Medium after Trances p. 41

Farm Widows, Night Hour p. 43

Medium on the Dietary Habits of the Dead p. 45

On Southern Summer Ghosts p. 46

Medium Dreams of Marriage p. 47

On Being Prolific p. 49

A Dear John Letter p. 51

Medium on the Sleeping Arrangements of the Dead p. 53

Spell for Removals p. 54

III

How to Love a House p. 57

Ghost to Apprentice p. 59

The House Says I Love You p. 61

The Thirst of the Prior Inhabitants p. 63

Ghost as Housekeeper p. 64

Ghost in a Dessert Dish p. 66

Ghost Encounter p. 67

Ghost Trapped in the Attic, Summer Afternoon p. 68

Woman in the Diorama p. 70

Suicide Ghost p. 72

Hunter p. 74

Ghost Coming to Terms p. 75

The Anniversary Dream p. 77

After the Butchering p. 78

A Shadow Left My Party p. 79.

Other Format:

Online version: Browning, Annah, Witch doctrine

ISBN:

9781629221649

1629221643

OCLC:

1123181015