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A portion of Thomas Cole’s ‘The Oxbow’ (1836)
This was supposed to be about Emily Dickinson and Susan Howe and how, as a reader, one reimagines poets, emblazoning them on banners for battles they could have had no part in, the moment for those contentions being – then – not yet at hand. The points and particulars have been carried away to other rooms, though, to stand in other corners.