Erase Genesis
“By redacting the same three chapters in different ways, I approached this book as a kind of literary translation. When I am translating, I come again and again to the source text; I come to participate in its creation. And in so doing, I am created; I am changed. I do not come to the text to assault it or upstage it. I come to know it. And in knowing it, I become a part of what really does want to be fruitful and multiply: the human imagination for connection.
The Book of Genesis can never be erased.”
— Rebecca Gayle Howell
For Rebecca Gayle Howell art is a practice of place, the Earth’s intelligence, which is always specific and always divine.
Working from rural Kentucky, Howell roots in the most human of forms: the spiritual imagination—as she merges modes like myth and realism across song, poetry, and prose.
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Also an award-winning editor, she is well known for her generous precision as she helps writers locate their stories, as well as their voice.
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Behold is a Substack for everyday contemplatives who want to remember awe is a birthright. There, Rebecca shares her practice of attention and builds a community to do the same.
Songs, stories, and poems are systems of pattern-making. So is the universe. My life gets a whole lot more interesting when I remember that I am not just another pattern-maker, I am a part of the hum.
– Rebecca Gayle Howell