== + = a, 2<< =S< 2‘ c Nn. a=t--} a— o c wem — Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/cantheseboneslivO000edwa_y4q3 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. ae... tom = —- ee ne 7 oy | el - are: shen Sere 4. vat Se @ ae 5 7 +i on Day & io oe onde - we 2 a ee : 0 Als ofa) a aie 7 7o ol = = - _ a's ae,o o : ; y |v r o.h - *s5 _— - —) = \ ys - : a le ne 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