Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting point the Labadists, a Utopian Quietest sect that...
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Mar 12, 2008
Andy
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A beautiful book. Howe's relation to the past gets richer and richer. Here I especially love the title sequence, where a "you" gradually accumulates, addressed by ghosts from lost history... and the final sequence, "A Fragment of the Wedding Dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards," with its final narrowing slit or eye, as if time is again receding, closing up... the profoundly moving sense, in this very visual work, of a time that time itself passes through, or the movements of a co
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Apr 24, 2010
Opal
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'America in a skin coat
the color of the juice of
mulberries' her fantastic
cap full of eyes will lead
our way as mind or ears
Goodnight goodnight
"The future seemed to lie in this forest of theories, letters, and forgotten actualities.
I felt a harmony beyond the confinement of our being merely dross or tin"
the color of the juice of
mulberries' her fantastic
cap full of eyes will lead
our way as mind or ears
Goodnight goodnight
"The future seemed to lie in this forest of theories, letters, and forgotten actualities.
I felt a harmony beyond the confinement of our being merely dross or tin"
Jan 02, 2011
Ellie
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Excellent: a little difficult for me & took (as all her works do, but this especially) a number of readings to begin to grasp. Well worth the time.
Ellie NYC
Ellie NYC
Aug 14, 2008
"Armed with call numbers, I find my way among scriptural exegeses, ethical homiletics, antiquarian researches, tropes and allegories, totemic animal parents, prophets, and poets. My retrospective excursions follow the principle that ghosts wrapped in appreciative obituaries by committee members, or dedications presented at vanished community field meetings, can be reanimated by appropriation."
Nov 15, 2011
jeff
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a fog of words in which one sees pieces of the past which are then swallowed up by the present and the process of considering them. and i'm learning to appreciate collage pieces--tho i would love to see the actual pieces of paper as opposed to the facsimile necessary for putting them in a book. poetry of thinking about thinking.
Nov 03, 2008
Kristen
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I might not have read this book at all if it weren't for Sharon (thanks, Sharon!)
It's the best book of poems I've read by SH, at least since The Europe of Trusts.
It's the best book of poems I've read by SH, at least since The Europe of Trusts.
Mar 20, 2011
obfuscations
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as historical investigation this tantalizes far more than it illuminates ... as personal revelation it is thin dry and obscure as an unmanaged winter hedge
Mar 25, 2008
Richard
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Beautiful, haunting, haunted--this book extends Howe's previous work in exciting ways.
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