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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.
Reviews
From Jean LeBlanc and Aqueduct Press a book titled A Field Guide to the
Spirits might conjure up visions of an abecedarium of different
supernatural beings, each with their own way of interacting with the
world. What we get is instead something considerably more nuanced and
interesting. The focus of this collection is historical, looking back at
the spiritualism movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
and to historical figures spanning many centuries. At no point does it
commit to the reality of the spirits being channeled in the poetry, which
evidences an interesting tension between the obviously rationalistic tenor
of our society that frames the collection and the perhaps pre-rational
mindset of the spiritualists and their clients, especially at the height of
their popularity. So here we get Kate Fox and automatic writing, but at the
same time we get a series of three poems about astronomer Caroline
Herschel.
—Strange Horizons, Karen Burnham, April 3, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61976-097-4 (13 digit)
Publication Date: Oct 2015
paperback 98 pages
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