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Souls of the Labadie Tract

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Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America, with Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens as her presiding tutelary geniuses. Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting point the Labadists, a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil County, Maryland, in 1684. The community dissolved in 1722. In Souls, Howe is lured by archives and libraries, with their ghosts, cranks, manuscripts and scraps of material. One thread winding through Souls is silken: from the epigraphs of Edwards and of Stevens to the mulberry tree and the fragment of a wedding dress that ends the book. Souls of the Labadie Tract presents Howe with her signature hybrids of poetry and prose, of evocation and refraction:

     There it is there it is—you

     want the great wicked city

     Oh I wouldn't I wouldn't

     It's not only that you're not

     It's what wills and will not.

Language: English

Pages: 127

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: November 17, 2007

ISBN: 0811217183

ISBN 13: 9780811217187

Souls of the Labadie Tract

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America, with Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens as her presiding tutelary geniuses. Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting point the Labadists, a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil County, Maryland, in 1684. The community dissolved in 1722. In Souls, Howe is lured by archives and libraries, with their ghosts, cranks, manuscripts and scraps of material. One thread winding through Souls is silken: from the epigraphs of Edwards and of Stevens to the mulberry tree and the fragment of a wedding dress that ends the book. Souls of the Labadie Tract presents Howe with her signature hybrids of poetry and prose, of evocation and refraction:

     There it is there it is—you

     want the great wicked city

     Oh I wouldn't I wouldn't

     It's not only that you're not

     It's what wills and will not.

Language: English

Pages: 127

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: November 17, 2007

ISBN: 0811217183

ISBN 13: 9780811217187

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