Gently weaving her own perception and encounters with the plant through her rigorous historical research
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"It may be that very tension that makes us wonder what it is that is moving the dance
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Penitential Cries - Susan Howe Paul Wilson Gently weaving her own perceptionWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect, what can you do in all this world, so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howes new book opens with the arresting long prose poem Penitential Cries, followed by a group of word collages Sterling Park in the Dark, The Deserted Shelf, and finally a brief sparrow poem. Speaking of her new work written in the evening of life, Howe quotes Thomas Wyatt: My galley, chargd with forgetfulness,