Finally, "My Emily Dickinson," Susan Howe's singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook. With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical ...
New poetry and prose from a most acclaimed experimental American poet. In The Midnight's five sections, three of poetry and two of prose amply illustrated with images Susan Howe has collected, we find bed hangings, unfinished lace, ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, Yeats, ...
Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring (or unsettling) one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America. This time the presiding tutelary geniuses are Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens.
This omnibus collection offers three books by Howe published in the 1980s, THE LIBERTIES, PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE, and DEFENESTRATION OF PRAGUE. Offering her trademark blend of emotive precision with historic inquiry, these volumes solidified Howe's importance in contemporary poetics.
Howe inhabits the imagination and explores the world of Charles Sanders Peirce in this, one of her many books that hovers in the borderland between poetry and prose. Thinking about Peirce's ideas led Howe to think about his life and his wife Juliette, and her meditations spin out into a multifaceted exploration of Victorian America, artists such ...
Poet Susan Howe brings her eye and ear for New England history to this collaboration with artist Susan Bee. Joining metaphysics and Puritan decorative arts, this book meditates on the accoutrements of sleep. Here, lying awake in bed is juxtaposed to spiritual awakening.
Rocks are prominent elements in Howe's poetic landscape. But Howe's West is not limited to the arid canyon-lands; it also extends to the cow-casino-bordello town of Elko and to the urbanized valleys of the Wasatch Front. It is apparent from the broad topical and thematic range that her poetry is not limited by geography though it is defined by it. ...
This experimental book of poetry incorporates the 17th-century political tract THE EIKON BASILIKE, which was censored because King Charles I of England, who was later deposed and beheaded, supposedly wrote it. However, the authorship is questionable, and several versions were secretly disseminated throughout England in the following decades. In ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 10-15-90
ISBN-13:9780819511942ISBN:0819511943
Description: FAIR. Clean paperback with shelfwear to cover and strong bumping/creasing to cover, spine and pages...book still full readable! 0.2 lbs. read more
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