The Brutal Telling

Grateful acknowledgment is given for permission to reprint the following:

“The Bells of Heaven” by Ralph Hodgson is used by kind permission of Bryn Mawr College.

Excerpts from “Cressida to Troilius: A Gift” and “Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War” from Morning in the Burning House: New Poems by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1995 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from “Gravity Zero” from Bones by Mike Freeman. Copyright © 2007 by Mike Freeman. Reproduced with kind permission of the author.