About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: Proof copy
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1999
Description: Fine and bright all around. A reader's proof copy in spiral bound edition with publisher's information neatly stapled to inside cover. read more
Edition: Second printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780811214100ISBN:0811214109
Description: NEW. 144pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "Pierce-Arrow, Susan Howe's newest book of poems, takes as its point of departure the figure of Charles S. Pierce, the allusive nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of prgmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishment yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing. " read more
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"Howe should not write with such dead emotion. The book is far beyond dull. Yes the back of the book made it sound interested by charming readers with Victorian life. I love books during the victorian era, both written or taking place in. This book is neither charming or entertaining. Its a book one can read once and toss it without regret."
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