Pearl (Limited-Edition Poetry Chapbook, Letterpress Book Publishing)
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A limited-edition, letterpress-printed, hand-bound chapbook
of poems in the voice of Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, based
on occurrences in the novel and later imagined events in her adult life in England, and with “interlude” prose poems in the voice of Hawthorne, loosely based on biographical information about him.
of poems in the voice of Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, based
on occurrences in the novel and later imagined events in her adult life in England, and with “interlude” prose poems in the voice of Hawthorne, loosely based on biographical information about him.
In giving her existence a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant,
but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves…The mother’s impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant…the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow of the untempered light of the intervening substance. Above all, the warfare of Hester’s spirit…was perpetuated in Pearl.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves…The mother’s impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant…the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow of the untempered light of the intervening substance. Above all, the warfare of Hester’s spirit…was perpetuated in Pearl.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter