Savage Conversations sexuality were often conducted with students

were often conducted with students and instructors seated together in a circle

a little girl wanders too far into the woods

for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished

By turns elegiac and erotic

Savage Conversations sexuality were often conducted with students"This is a haunted poem. Howe gives us voices intimate, twisted, and deludedand yet relentlessly exact. Inside this drama in verse, a seething history uncoils. But do we meet a mad woman's fantasy or someone more real?" Heid Erdrich May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln's claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face