Eden Incarnadine, or The Authentic History of the Terrible Harpes

Author(s):
Dan Howell
Book summary:

The true story of the Harpe brothers, serial killers in frontier Kentucky, narrated in blank verse by a mid-19th century American named Jeremiah Humm, and edited by the American historian, Lyman Copeland Draper.

Publication year:
2019
Publisher:
Broadstone Books
Praise:
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“Dan Howell’s Eden Incarnadine, or The Authentic History of the Terrible Harpes is Poe’s American Gothic crossing the mountains into frontier Kentucky and set to verse, a narrative poem rooted in the history of Kentucky’s earliest serial killers, brothers Micajah and Wiley Harpe. Howell’s chilling excursion into a buckskin dystopia explores the dark careers of 'two of the more purely evil creatures ever to befoul this continent.' Howell unrelentingly and artfully brings it all alive.”
Credit:
Richard Taylor, former Kentucky Poet Laureate & author of Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape
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“Eden Incarnadine is a wildly inventive, gut-punch of a poem. I’ve never read anything quite like it. It is at once experimental and grounded in tradition. Howell inhabits an earlier American idiom and never hits a flat note. If Cormac McCarthy wrote poetry, it would sound like this.”
Credit:
Erik Reece, author of Utopia Drive & Lost Mountain
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Dan Howell's collection of poems, Lost Country (Massachusetts), was the runner-up for the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America, and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Other awards include a Writing Fellowship (Poetry) at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Tom McAfee Discovery Award (Missouri Review), and a citation for Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1993. A chapbook of poems, Whatever Light Used to Be (Workhorse), was published in 2018; Eden Incarnadine, a book-length poem, was published by Broadstone Books in 2019. MA, SUNY-Buffalo. MFA, UC-Irvine.
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Book URL:
http://broadstonebooks.com/Dan_Howell.html

Whatever Light Used to Be

Author(s):
Dan Howell
Book summary:

a chapbook of poems

Publication year:
2018
Publisher:
Workhorse
Praise:
Quote:
Dan Howell’s voice rises elegant and calm through the carved surfaces of these poems. Regarding the strangeness of everyday moments with wonder, these amazing poems remind us that the broken world still lives.
Credit:
– Cynthia Huntington, author of Heavenly Bodies
Quote:
The marvelous poems in Whatever Light Used To Be move against the gravity of time and corrosion toward moments of ecstasy that are all the more convincing and ecstatic for their refusal to forget the gravity they momentarily overcome. These are seasoned poems, tough, disquieting and beautiful, impossible to forget.
Credit:
Alan Shaprio, author of Reel to Reel
Bio:
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Short bio:
Dan Howell's collection of poems, Lost Country (Massachusetts), was the runner-up for the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America, and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Other awards include a Writing Fellowship (Poetry) at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Tom McAfee Discovery Award (Missouri Review), and a citation for Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1993. A chapbook of poems, Whatever Light Used to Be (Workhorse), was published in 2018; Eden Incarnadine, a book-length poem, was published by Broadstone Books in 2019. MA, SUNY-Buffalo. MFA, UC-Irvine.
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Book URL:
https://workhorsewriters.com/shop/whatever-light-used-to-be-by-dan-howell-preorder-ships-late-august/

Early American Literature (journal)

Author(s):
Marion Rust, Editor
Book summary:

Published three times a year since 1965, EAL remains the flagship journal in its field. We are affiliated with the Society of Early Americanists and the Modern Language Association Forum on Early American Literature.

Publication year:
2019
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
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Marion Rust is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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2019 Vandenbosch (Political Science) Awards Banquet

The Political Science Department held its annual awards banquet on Thursday, 25 April 2019 -- with a greatly expanded set of awards thanks to the generosity of our program's alumni. Held in the President's Room of the Boone Center (i.e., the faculty club), it drew a large crowd of students, faculty, staff, and guests, who ended the evening listening to a keynote address by Lexington Vice Mayor Steve Kay



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