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A Field Guide to the Spirits
| Author: | Jean LeBlanc |
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Aqueduct Press, 2015 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
In A Field Guide to the Spirits, poetry becomes a means of time travel in which voices from the past offer insights, reveal secrets, transform our concept of now. These poems explore the interwoven pathways of ghost, memory, imagination, and desire. The spirits visited range from Caroline Herschel and Mary Shelley to Zane Grey and Dashiell Hammet, William Blake to Anne Hutchinson, John Keats to Isaac Newton's niece.
Table of Contents:
- Know Your Spirits
- Great Interest in Our Underthings
- What We Really Mean When We Say "Love"
- Photographing Snowflakes
- Katherine Wheelwright Nanny Naylor's Privy
- Marie, sans Pierre
- Last Words
- Hope, Hunger, Birds
- Automatic Writing
- The Way To and From Forever
- Ptolemy Prepares to Read a Friend's Astrology
- Free Will
- How Else Could Kate Fox Know Your Secrets
- To Live Like the Polypody Fern
- March Conversation
- Caroline Herschel, Twelve Years Old
- Caroline Herschel on the Journey from Hanover to Bath
- Caroline Herschel at Ninety-Eight
- William Caxton Encourages an Apprentice
- Gout
- Joseph Banks Describes Tahiti to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- You Don't Want to Be Like That
- Autopsy
- Now the Field Is Cold where Last Spring
- Medium
- Moonflower
- Vento et Rapida
- How the Smith Boys Died, and When
- William Blake Teaches His Wife to Read
- In the Neighborhood of the Mind
- The Forgotten Language of the Dead City
- Cleopatra's Snake Girl
- The Plague Stone
- Split Rock
- Anne Hutchinson in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
- When the Self Goes, It Goes.
- With All that Has Been Written about the Soul
- Headwaters
- When Bones Speak
- Hee Is Paile
- Isaac Newton's Niece Catherine Barton Explains the Apple
- In Memory
- The Language of the Grave
- When We Ugly Women Die
- Joan of England's Portable Chapel
- The Fortune Teller
- My Father, Photographing My Mother
- Every Journey Ends in Prison
- She Talks about Teaching Herself How to Draw
- Dashiell Hammett, Age 57, Reads Jane Eyre in the Ashland Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland, Kentucky, 1951
- Reading Dostoevsky to the Girls
- Mary Shelley Writing Frankenstein
- A Brief Life of John Keats
- Luncheon with Henry James
- What If Your Dentist Were Zane Grey?
- William James and Sigmund Freud Walk to the Train Station, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1909
- Eleven Reasons Not To Marry A Poet
- Adverbs
- Our Maladies
- Emma Darwin's Prayer
- Hyperbole
- Journey's End
- Disembodied Gossip
- A Field Guide to the Spirits
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