{"product_id":"souls-of-the-labadie-tract-paperback","title":"Souls of the LaBadie Tract - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSouls of the Labadie\u003c\/em\u003e Tract finds Susan Howe exploring (or unsettling) 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, \u003cem\u003eSouls of the Labadie Tract\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSouls\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 (\"the silkworm is a remarkable type of Christ...\") and of Stevens (\"the poet makes silk dresses out of worms\") to the mulberry tree (food of the silkworms) and the fragment of a wedding dress that ends the book. \u003cem\u003eSouls of the Labadie Tract\u003c\/em\u003e presents Howe with her signature hybrids of poetry and prose, of evocation and refraction: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There it is there it is--you\u003cbr\u003e want the great wicked city\u003cbr\u003e Oh I wouldn't I wouldn't\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's not only that you're not\u003cbr\u003e It's what wills and will not.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.96 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757715226912,"sku":"9780811217187","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ab4f898431a340a3ddc32c8702e6d1d2.webp?v=1780109815","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/souls-of-the-labadie-tract-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}