Category Archives: Sources

The Publick Universal Friend, Mary Tammer: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Patrick Doud

  Across the entire breadth of New York State, undeviating, a hilly strip scarcely twenty-five miles wide invites the world’s wonder. It is a broad psychic highway, a thoroughfare of the occult whose great stations number the mystic seven. For … Continue reading →

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The serpent on the beach: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Patrick Doud

As I was at work on The Mornith War, something mysterious happened in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the city where I live. For decades, a painting of a serpentine creature endured on a big rock on Cressy’s Beach, a beautiful place on the western side of Gloucester Harbor. … Continue reading →

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Mourning doves, Lorine Niedecker: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Patrick Doud

The Mornith War is full of things that got my attention at the time I was writing. Events in my neighborhood, my world … books I was reading … my nightly dreams and nightmares … whatever parts of my experience … Continue reading →

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