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- Title: Of Ghostlier Demarcations: Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract
- Author : Dan Beachy-Quick
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Of Ghostlier Demarcations: Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract New Directions, 2007 An echo marks by its utterance the ancestral voice that birthed it, seed-word, source-word--an atavism that recalls Emerson's "Every word was once a poem," but recognizes more deeply that sounds mutate over time, do not remain static, but come clothed in audible remnants, come tattered through time as through a wilderness, speaking themselves through their bewildered form. Susan Howe's newest book of poems, The Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions, 2007) is full of such echoes, words which, for lack of any better way to consider them, do not define so much as limn the ghostly demarcations of voice, this inheritance of language spoken to us always before we learn to speak it. A language, one might hazard, that speaks us. Throughout reading the three sequences which comprise Howe's book, each section subsequently shorter than the previous, I kept hearing a line from one of her most dear poetic ancestors, Emily Dickinson: "Nature is a haunted house; Art a house that wants to be haunted." The poem is a curious invitation--it asks the apparitions in. What from the silent margins will appear?