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...
For Wallace Stevens, -Poetry is the scholar's art.- Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (a...
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
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film...
A powerful selection of Susan Howe's key essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new -Vagrancy in the Park- (about Wallace Stevens) through essential texts such as -The Disappearance Approach, - -Personal Narrative, - -Sorting Facts; or, 47 Ways of Looking at Chris Marker, - -Frame Structures, - and -Where Should the Commander Be- to end with her seminal early art criticism, -The End of Art.-
A powerful selection of Susan Howe's key essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new -Vagrancy in the Park- (about Wallace S...
Susan (State University of New York, Buffalo) Howe
Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where eachtext is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters, professors, and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer--as a poet and feminist as much as a critic: her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in her seminal textural scholarship in examination of their editorial histories of landmark works. In the process, Howe uproots settled institutionalized roles of men...
Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where eachtext is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts in...
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...
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...
