Souls of the LaBadie Tract

by Susan Howe

Book Overview

Souls of the Labadie 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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217183
• ISBN13: 9780811217187
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"