Smoke and Souvenirs: The Essence of Charles Demuth Self-Help Merit has begun to feel

Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life

Desperately

and confound the official stories about how gender and sexuality work

an odyssey that takes her into the territory of her past

William Haywood Henderson published Native

Smoke and Souvenirs: The Essence of Charles Demuth Self-Help Merit has begun to feelAlready, Demuth is a legend. Funny how a man can disappear. There is left only the smoke, the souvenir the essence, I suppose you could call it." Marcel Duchamp, January 21, 1956 In 1922, William Carlos Williams reimagined what a book of poetry could be when he published Spring and All, dedicated to his friend Charles Demuth. Smoke and Souvenirs by David T. Shoemaker reimagines what a biography can be. Combining poetry and essays, Mr. Shoemaker