Withdrawn / abandoned 160-page paperback book, a detailed analysis by 'Ann Powers' as part of the '33⅓' series. First cited for publication in 2011 and confirmed as abandoned in 2015. Further cited for publication in 2015, 2017 and 2020.

'This book will be imagistically rich and prismatically structured, interweaving the old tales of she-bears and werewolves, Donkeyskin and Coyote, with historical accounts of Houdini's wife, bank robbers like Machine Gun Molly and warriors like the revolutionary war hero Deborah Sampson. Some of these tales directly inspired Bush's lyrics, others illuminate them; all are part of the tapestry of truth and exaggeration that Bush took up with The Dreaming.'

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