{"product_id":"that-this-9780811219181","title":"That This","description":"\"What treasures of knowledge we cluster around.\" \u003cem\u003eThat This\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection in three pieces. \"Disappearance Approach,\" an essay about Howe's husband's sudden death--\"land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth\"--begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy, Sarah Edwards and her sister-in-law Hannah, phantoms, and elusive remnants. \"Frolic Architecture,\" the second section--inspired by visits to the vast 18th-century Jonathan Edwards archives at the Beinecke and accompanied by six photograms by James Welling--presents hauntingly lovely, oblique type-collages of Hannah Edwards Wetmore's diary entries that Howe (with scissors, \"invisible\" Scotch Tape, and a Canon copier) has twisted, flattened, and snipped into inscapes of force. The final section, \"That This,\" delivers beautiful short squares of verse that might look at home in a hymnal, with their orderly appearance packing startling power: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That this book is a history of\u003cbr\u003e a shadow that is a shadow of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Me mystically one in another\u003cbr\u003e another another to subserve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelling, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames Welling\u003c\/b\u003e, b. 1951, is an acclaimed experimental artist who employs a wide variety of photographic tools and media.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowe, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as \u003cem\u003eDebths\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMidnight\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDickinson\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarry\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirthmark\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413228917010,"sku":"9780811219181","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_79c228c5-254b-48a1-91b5-54d96b659cb6.jpg?v=1729350006","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-this-9780811219181","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}