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[ Susan Howe visits ]

Susan Howe chats with Rivka during the break in our 3-hour session with her this past Monday.

[ NYPD Blue episodes to watch ]

We will all watch and write about - and be ready to discuss - the following NYPD Blue episodes from seasons 1 and 2.

season 1
1: pilot
2: 4B or Not 4B
3: Brown Appetit
4: True Confessions
[Watch episode 4 a second time, listening to commentary by David Milch.]
5: Emission Accomplished
9: Ice Follies
10: Oscar, Meyer, Wiener
11: From Hare to Eternity
16: A Sudden Fish
20: Good Time Charlie
21: Guns 'N' Roses
22: Rockin' Robin

season 2
1: Trials and Tribulations
2: From Whom the Skell Rolls
3: Cop Suey
4: Dead and Gone
5: Simone Says
6: The Final Adjustment
7: Double Abandando
8: You Bet Your Life
15: Bombs Away
18: Innuendo
21: The Bank Dick
22: A.D.A. Sipowicz

And watch the documentary, "Season 2: A Season of Change."

[ Hill Street Blues season 3 episodes written by Milch ]

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[ Bed Hangings ]

Granary Press published Bed Hangings - text of the poems in The Midnight along with illustrations around the poems by Susan Bee. "In Bed Hangings, poet Susan Howe and artist Susan Bee collaborate for the first time. This series of poems explores the themes of colonial America and its decorative arts, religion and Puritanism through a visual and verbal investigation of the metaphysics of beds, curtains, and hangings. The poems and pictures play off each other in a humorous, mystical and occasionally mischievous manner." Click here for more. And here is a short review by Marjorie Perloff.

[ "Souls of the Labadie Tract" audio ]

PennSound is now making available Susan Howe's recording--with the music of David Grubbs--of "Souls of the Labadie Tract." Click here for a link to the Howe/Grubbs PennSound page.