{"product_id":"that-this-9780811219181","title":"That This","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Howe | James Welling\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780821991575,"sku":"9780811219181","price":1772.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811219181.webp?v=1778048563","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/that-this-9780811219181","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}