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Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, -Frame Structures, - written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the...

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, - Home tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Bronte, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well...

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.

An excerpt:

Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record somethin because I am a survivor in this ocean

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...