Can these bones live

196 Pages·1960·9.357 MB·English

by  Edward Dahlberg

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CAN THESE BONES LIVE
EDWARD DAHLBERG
With Forty-two Drawings by James Kearns
and a Preface by Sir Herbert Read
Ann Arbor Paperbacks
The University ofM ichigan Press
CAN THESE BONES LIVE
First edition as an Ann Arbor Paperback 1967
Copyright 1941, ©1960 by Edward Dahlberg
All rights reserved
Published in the United States of America by
The University of Michigan Press and simultaneously
in Rexdale, Canada, by Ambassador Books Limited
Manufactured in the United States of America
To the memory of
my Mother, Elizabeth Dahlberg, who,
as sorrowing Hagar, taught me
how to make Ishmael’s Covenant with the Heart’s Afflictions.
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1X
PREFACE BY HERBERT READ xi
I. THE MAN-EATING FABLE
II. THOREAU AND WALDEN
III. RANDOLPH BOURNE: IN THE SADDLE
OF ROSINANTE
IV. CAN THESE BONES LIVE
Ishmael
Sanctified Lies
The Flesh Refused
Zossima’s Corpse
The Helmet of Mambrino
The Proletarian Eucharist
Melanchtha
ShEOGeose2e Ezekiel’s Valley
V. THE BRIDEGROOM’S ACHE
1. The Sink of Bethesda
2. The False Ascension
3. The Bridegroom
VI. THE CROSS AND THE WINDMILLS 107
Vil. WOMAN 119
1. “I was naked; and I hid” 121
2. “The venom thou hast poured on me
Be still, my spirit.” 134
ee “Sing O Barren” 142
a “False Cressid! false, false, false!” 150
VIII. SUPERSTITION AND IMAGES 165
1. The Witch’s Cauldron 167
2. Statute Answer and Man Question 169
3. The State Kettle 173