Debths

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226867
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies, “the rule of remoteness,” and “the luminous story surrounding all things noumenal.” Following the preface are four sections of poetry: “Titian Air Vent,” “Tom Tit Tot” (her newest collage poems), “Periscope,” and “Debths.” As always with Howe, Debths brings “a not-being-in-the-no.”

That this

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Prose and poems

My Emily Dickinson

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

The Quarry: Essays

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces. A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagrancy in the Park" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as "The Disappearance Approach," "Personal Narrative," "Sorting Facts," "Frame Structures," and "Where Should the Commander Be," and ending with her seminal early criticism, "The End of Art." The essays of The Quarry map the intellectual territory of one of America's most important and vital avant-garde poets.

Spontaneous Particulars

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811229777
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally a cloth coedition with the Christine Burgin Gallery, this rapturous hymn to discoveries and archives is now a paperback

Souls of the Labadie Tract

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting point the Labadists, a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil County, Maryland in 1684. The community dissolved in 1722. In Souls Howe is lured by archives and libraries, with their ghosts, cranks, manuscripts and material scraps. Souls of the Labadie Tract presents Howe with her signature hybrids of poetry and prose, of evocation and refraction. One thread winding through Souls is silken: from the epigraphs of Edwards ("the silkworm is a remarkable type of Christ...") and of Stevens ("the poet makes silk dresses out of worms") to the mulberry tree (food of the silkworms) and the fragment of a wedding dress which ends the book.

Concordance

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811229593
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new poetry book by Susan Howe is always an event

Pierce-arrow

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Howe's historical linkings, resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war, create a compelling canvas of associations.

The Nonconformist's Memorial

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. Howe is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T.S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into two sections, "Turning" and "Conversion", in half-ironic nonconforming counterpoint to Eliot's Four Quartets. Her collaging and mirror-imaging of words are concretions of verbal static, visual meditations on what can and cannot be said. For Howe, "Melville's Marginalia" is the essential poem in the collection, an approach to an elusive and allusive mind through Melville's own reading and the notations in his library books. This, says Howe, is "Language a wood for thought".

The Birth-mark

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
A stimulating examination of early American literature