Savage Conversations sexuality were often conducted with students

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

and mysterious second meanings

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

and George Armstrong Custer

who reclaimed practices that had almost been lost forever

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