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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Mapping the Ways
2. Spinning the Tales
3. Voices & Viewpoints
4. Spell Binding & Spell Breaking
5. Magical Objects
6. Desire & Its Discontents
7. The Grimm Sisterhood
8. Variations & Updates
9. Ever After, Or a Few Years Later
10. Living the Tales
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index of Poems by Tale Index of Authors and Titles
About the Editors
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M A R T H A C A R L S O N - B R A D L E Y
The Maiden Without Hands
And the father takes
his daughter's hand
firmly in his own,
reeking as he wields the ax
of cows, sweat,
the knuckles that trap her
cracked and red.
She will not turn her eyes away,
demands that her severed arms
be strapped to her back,
young woman on a country road
who walks towards strangers.
"The Maiden Without Hands" first appeared in Marlboro Review, no.6, Summer/Fall 1998, © 1998 by Martha Carlson-Bradley. Poem used by permission of the author. It is a violation of copyright law to distribute or reproduce this poem without express permission of the author.
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