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Before the Drought Quitab Editions But I'm straying from theBefore the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and bloods hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating