A Magic Book

By Sasha Steensen

Book Overview

"Steensen's sources are antiquarian archives, journals, magic acts: what has been saved and lost and saved again. She moves] among materials of our checkered past--magicians, changelings, George Washington, seances, Cotton Mather, the Davenport Brothers, W. C. Williams, the spirit of Charles Olson. Through imaginative exorcism she brings back into our perception the experience of the invisible dead"
--Susan Howe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974090948
• ISBN13: 9780974090948
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Fence Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A compendium of verse that present powerful spells

A Magic Book showcases the poetry of Sasha Steensen who was trained as an historian, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, and is co-editor of the periodical "Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose". A compendium of verse that present powerful spells, alternative history and myth, an American era when industry supersedes religion and magic steps in with its hoaxes and hopefulness, A Magic Book is superlative and visual reading whose distinctive poetry and poetic imagery will linger in the mind long after the book has been read and placed back upon the shelf. Errand #1: Make it the land of a thousand dies./Make it colorful and unmatched./Make it there and make it home./Do not make it your own./Make it in the manner of the old./Make it only with the well-known./Make it boast of its self.