About this title: 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, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Olmsted - a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With an inspired and inimitable verbal energy which takes on shades of wit, insomnia ...
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Edition: Second printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780811215381ISBN:0811215385
Description: NEW. 178pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find--swirling around the poet's mother--ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers, Emily Dickinson, and much more: a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With shades of wit ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780811215381ISBN:0811215385
Description: 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 pho... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 2003
Description: Fine in No jacket. Signed by Author First edition. A trade paperback original. Fine copy in card wrappers with French flaps. This copy briefly INSCRIBED by Howe and dated in 2004. An uncommon signature. read more
"Howe's poetry is not for everyone. Though she tries to be exciting in this collection, she falls flat. The best part of the book is the tittle. The poetry is dull and emotionless. When reading it the words feel dead."
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