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5q47rn31z4s	Kristina Jipson	New Spiritualism: Approaching the Dead in Twenty-First-Century American Poetry	2014		.txt	text/plain	311	8	20	Poets like Susan Howe, Kristen Prevallet, Rusty Morrison, Mary Jo Bang, and M. NourbeSe Philip are using the practice of writing as a means of cultivating felt spiritual contact with the deceased, with skepticism and the imperative for plausibility playing a vital role in each of their pursuits. The impulse to test and affirm the possibility of communicating with the dead has important roots in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, which offered practitioners a 'scientific' approach to spiritual experience by figuring the séance in empirical terms.	cache/5q47rn31z4s.txt	txt/5q47rn31z4s.txt