An alternative history, offering alternative myths, of the founding of the United States of America. Where religion must be erased and where industry is a given, magic steps in with its hoaxes and promises. In A Magic Book, Sasha Steensen deftly inscribes, using treatise, factoid, rhyme, and timeline, the choices we have made, culturally, against a belief in invisibility: What we have not seen, must not be. “never harm nor spell nor charm”

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FROM THE BOOK

Errand #2

Run in/over and see what you can
and, of course, cannot

(the devil was Exceedingly Disturbed)

See.

This sexteenth-century time disturbed.

Winner of the 2004 Alberta Prize.

Sasha Steensen is a coeditor of the journal Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics and Experimental Prose and a founder and co-curator of the Buffalo reading series, ANOTHER. She is the author of the chapbook Correspondence, a collaboration with Gordon Hadfield, forthcoming from Handwritten Press. She holds a BA in History and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is currently completing a PhD in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.

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