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Table of Contents
(Each chapter links to a poem from the anthology)


  Introduction

  1. Mapping the Ways

Landscape: In the Forest    Sandra M. Gilbert
Voices from the Forest    Lisel Mueller
Afraid to Look Afraid to Look Away    Kathleen Jesme
Asleep in the Forest    Andrea Hollander Budy
Gretel    Mary Jo Bang
Black Fairy Tale    Elizabeth Spires
Further Adventures    Elaine Equi
The Twelve Dancing Princesses    Sandra M. Gilbert
The Sleeping Kingdom    Donald Finkel
Briar Rose    Debora Greger
Instructions    Neil Gaiman
Hotel Grimm    Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Lost in the Forest    Amy Gerstler
Fairy Tales    Henry Sloss
  2. Spinning the Tales
Fairy Tale    Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Twelve Dancing Princesses    Anne Sexton
The Maiden Without Hands    Martha Carlson-Bradley
The White Snake    Martha Carlson-Bradley
The Sister of the Swans    Janet McAdams
An Embroidery (I)    Denise Levertov
Cinderella's Story    Mona Van Duyn
The Frog Prince    Joyce Thomas
The Stepmother Arrives    Patricia Carlin
  3. Voices & Viewpoints
Babe in the Woods    Moyra Donaldson
The Robber Bridegroom    Allen Tate
What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood    Tim Seibles
The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood"    Agha Shahid Ali
Grandmother    Laurence Snydal
Gretel, Lost    Jean Monahan
Hansel Tells Gretel of the Witch    Regie Cabico
Gretel, from a sudden clearing    Marie Howe
Witch Words    Valery Nash
The Witch    Sara Henderson Hay
The Fisherman's Wife    Maura Stanton
The Sleeper 1 and 2    Sara Henderson Hay
The Gift    Jean Monahan
Sleeping Beauty Has Words    Claudia Carlson
The Bear    Ann Stanford
Snow White and Rose Red    Debora Greger
Rapunzel    David Trinidad
Rapunzel Shorn    Lisa Russ Spaar
The Prince    Gwen Straus
Ashputtel    Penelope Shuttle
Straw Into Gold    Bruce Bennett
Her Shadow    Gwen Straus
Snow White in Exile    Susan Thomas
Dwarves    Martin Mooney
Fervor    Kimiko Hahn
  4. Spell Binding & Spell Breaking
A Spell for Sleeping    Alastair Reid
from The Sleeping Beauty    Hayden Carruth
The Glass Coffin    Sue Owen
Sleeping Beauty's Dreams    Denise Duhamel
The Frog Prince    Stevie Smith
Fractured Fairy Tale    Susan Wheeler
The Sleeping Princess    Ann Stanford
sleeping beauty    Lucille Clifton
Beauty Sleeping Now    Anna Rabinowitz
Jealousy    Sharon Dolin
Fable    Muriel Rukeyser
Immortality    Lisel Mueller
  5. Magical Objects
The Objects in Fairy Tales    Elaine Equi
Snow White: The Mirror    Alice Friman
Snow White Turns 39    Anne Sheldon
The Poisoned Apple    Sue Owen
Rampion    Natasha Sajé
Rapunzel's Clock    Lisa Russ Spaar
The Glass Slipper    Jane Shore
The Twelve Dancing Princesses    Margaret Rockwell
Masquerade    Barbara Crooker
Cinderella's Life at the Castle    Russell Edson
  6. Desire & Its Discontents
Little Red-Cap    Carol Ann Duffy
Rapunzel    Alice Friman
The Skeptical Prince    Bruce Bennett
Rumplestiltskin Keeps Mum    Claudia Carlson
Kissing the Toad    Galway Kinnell
How to Change a Frog Into a Prince    Anna Denise
Where's Wolf?    Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Hans My Hedgehog    Martha Carlson-Bradley
Cinderella    Gwen Straus
The Robber Bridegroom    Margaret Atwood
The Goosegirl    Maura Stanton
Rapunzel    Brenda Hillman
The Fisherman's Wife    Ingrid Wendt
Sex and Politics in Fairyland    Wanda Coleman
Fairy Tale    Aliki Barnstone
Rapunzel    Olga Broumas
Song for Rapunzel    Essex Hemphill
  7. The Grimm Sisterhood
Cinderella Dream at Ten    Ingrid Wendt
Cinderella    Enid Dame
The Two Gretels    Robin Morgan
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes    Martha Carlson-Bradley
Brother and Sister    Terri Windling
Cinderella    Olga Broumas
Gretel    Andrea Hollander Budy
Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale    Jane Yolen
Rose Red    Erin Belieu
The Stepsister's Story    Emma Bull
Girl Without Hands    Margaret Atwood
Rampion    Nicole Cooley
To the Nixie of the Mill-Pond    Annie Finch
Little Red Riding Hood    Olga Broumas
Lessons from a Mirror    Thylias Moss
The Wicked Witch    Carol Jane Bangs
Against Cinderella    Julia Alvarez
  8. Variations & Updates
The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince    Randall Jarrell
The True Story of Snow White    Bruce Bennett
Anaconda Mining Makes the Seven Dwarfs an Offer    Mike Carlin
HM Customs & Excise    Rachel Loden
Juvenile Court    Sara Henderson Hay
The Social Worker Finds Hansel and Gretel Difficult to Place    Enid Dame
On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood by the Artist J.H.    Alice Wirth Gray
The Peasant Girl    David Trinidad
The Ugly Stepsister    Denise Duhamel
Grave Fairytale    Dorothy Hewett
Rapunzel: A Modern Tale    Maria Terrone
Scorched Cinderella    Amy Gerstler
The Girl With No Hands    Rigoberto González
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins    R. S. Gwynn
Snow White and the Man Sent to Fetch Her Heart    Alice Wirth Gray
Snow White    Andrea Hollander Budy
Hazel Tells LaVerne    Katharyn Howd Machan
Sleeping Beauty    Donald Finkel
Achtung, My Princess, Good Night    Barbara Hamby
  9. Ever After, Or a Few Years Later
Ever After    Debora Greger
Kissing the Frog    Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Cinderella    Randall Jarrell
Cinderella and Lazarus, Part II    Dorothy Barresi
Twenty Years After    Marlene Joyce Pearson
Gretel in Darkness    Louise Glück
Hansel's Game    Agha Shahid Ali
Snow White Over & Over    Lee Upton
Snow White: The Prince    Alice Friman
From the Journals of the Frog Prince    Susan Mitchell
The Prince Who Woke Briar Rose    Anne Sheldon
Queen Charming Writes Again    Pamela White Hadas
Gretel    Ronald Koertge
An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little    Agha Shahid Ali
The Archaeology of a Marriage    Maxine Kumin
  10. Living the Tales
Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm    Gregory Orr
The Old Story    Emily Hiestand
Daughters with Toad    Mark DeFoe
Dock    Martha Ronk
A Fairy Tale    Amy Lowell
Fundevogel    Meg Kearney
A Happy Ending for the Lost Children    Charles Martin
Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures    Peter Cooley
Snow White    Nicole Cooley
Conversation with My Father    Elline Lipkin
Transfiguration Begins at Home    Estha Weiner
Castrato    Yusef Komunyakaa
Poem About Straw    James Nolan
The Wolf in the Bed    Rachel Hadas
The Sleeping Beauty    Rachel Hadas
This Is a Convalescent Home, Not the Fairy Tale Cottage and Always the Good Father    Marlene Joyce Pearson
Like Gretel    Jeff Walt
Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny    Lisel Mueller
Kinder- und Hausmärchen    Diane Thiel
  About the Authors
  Acknowledgments
  Selected Bibliography
  Index of Poems by Tale
  Index of Authors and Titles
  About the Editors


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Edited by
Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson