Susan Howe, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1229-8
Fifteen years after first garnering acclaim for her small press publications, Howe's ( Singularities ) entry into mainstream publishing is inauspicious. Making use of history, revered texts and collage, Howe pans for meaning like an alchemist...
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Susan Howe, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1322-6
This eagerly awaited edition brings back into print four of five long-poem chapbooks with which Howe moved from the visual arts into poetry. The interplay is readily apparent. Howe compresses her lines into ""fields"" of text, where rhymes and the...
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Susan Howe, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1410-0
With her first book of new poems in six years, Howe further solidifies her reputation as one of North Americas foremost experimental writers. Pierce-Arrow engages many of the elements and themes that have consistently appeared in both her poetry (The
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Susan Howe, Author . New Directions $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1538-1
Howe continues to unsettle easy assumptions about contemporary experimental American poetry, and, simultaneously, origin myths of the U.S., with carefully measured doses of early history, national and personal: "I am assembling materials for a...
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Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger, Bernadette Mayer, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris. New Directions, $35 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2063-7
New Directions, vanguard of experimental writing since its inception in 1936, is returning to an old form with a series of chapbooks (also published in this single volume) reminiscent of its 1940s series “Poet of the Month” and “Poets of the Year.”...
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Susan Howe, Author . New Directions $16.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1718-7
Over the past three decades Howe has worked as a kind of poet-scholar manqué, mixing into her books prose explorations of early American spiritual and historical chroniclers and her own distinctive poems, usually terse, four-stress snippets...
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Susan Howe, with art by James Welling, New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1918-1
In this very beautiful four-part book, Howe (Souls of the Labadie Tract) seeks to come to terms with the sudden death of her third husband, the philosopher and scholar Peter H. Hare. The four sections take radically different formal "approaches" to...
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Susan Howe. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2246-4
Acclaimed poet Howe (That This) touches on literary criticism, film, her personal history, and other wide-ranging topics in these 10 essays, five previously unpublished. The first selection centers on Wallace Stevens, whom Howe uses as a jumping-off
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Susan Howe. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2685-1
Howe (The Birthmark and The Quarry) collects poems and text collages to produce a complex and winding exploration of memory, history, and storytelling (and -making) amid her ever-deepening poetics of the archive. As always, subtle slippages lead to...
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Susan Howe. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2959-3
Howe (Debths) frames poetry as a space for dialogue between traditions, literary forms, and artistic mediums in her meditative 11th work. Presented as collages, which cull text from the correspondence and personal papers of Henry David Thoreau,...
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Susan Howe. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-81123-982-0
This spare and arresting collection from Howe (Concordance) comprises four series poems that address aging, history, and the afterlives of texts and language. The eponymous opening section is a long, elegiac prose poem studded with references to...
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