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Everything Awake was written during a dreamy, disorienting period of insomnia. In the middle of the night, I began studying Catullus, imagining that his hendecasyllabic rhythms might shush me to sleep. Instead, they prompted a series of eleven-line poems with eleven syllables per line. I was drawn to the number, via Catullus, because it felt both excessive and insufficient, just like the space of an insomniac's day. Eleven opened up onto an ex...

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A portrait in poems of the back-to-the-land movement of the '70s: the hippies and hicks, addictions and attempts at recovery.

What or who is The Method? Charming, dangerous, love-struck, mistaken-an angle of the human mind."--Eleni Sikelianos

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.