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The Forest

Susan Stewart plumbs human history in an attempt to articulate the way language, memory, and art join in evoking consciousness. The Forest is about violence and memory: the violence we do to our surroundings and to ourselves; and the propensity of the human mind to exploit and rationalize in its longing for truth.

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86 pages | 6 x 8-1/2 | © 1995

Phoenix Poets

Poetry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
("What haunts...")
The Forest
Slaughter
1931
1936
The Arbor 1937
The Violation 1942
The Gypsy 1946
The Coincidence 1956
The Spell
(We needed fire...)
Holswege
Nervous System
Medusa Anthology
May 1988
Lamentations
The Desert 1990-1993
The Meadow
Notes

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