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A new poetry book by Susan Howe is always an event “Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals,” Susan Howe has said. In Concordance , she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives. “Since,” a semi-autobiographical prose-poem, opens the concerned with first and last things, meditating on the particular and peculiar affinities between law and poetry, it ranges from the Permian time of Pangea through Rembrandt and Dickinson to the dire present. “Concordance,” a collage poem originally published as a Grenfell Press limited edition, springs from slivers of poetry and marginalia, cut from old concordances and facsimile editions of Milton, Swift, Herbert, Browning, Dickinson, Coleridge, and Yeats, as well as from various field guides to birds, rocks, and the collages’ “rotating prisms” form the heart of the book. The final poem, “Space Permitting,” is collaged from drafts and notes Thoreau sent to Emerson and Margaret Fuller's friends and family in Concord while on a mission to recover her remains from the shipwreck on Fire Island. The fierce ethic of salvage in these three very different pieces expresses the vitalism in words, sounds, syllables, the telepathic spirit of all things singing into air.

Originally a cloth coedition with the Christine Burgin Gallery, this rapturous hymn to discoveries and archives is now a paperback

Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize

In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer--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 and women as well as of poetry and prose--and of poetry and prose. The Birth-mark, first published in 1993, now joins the New Directions canon of a dozen Susan Howe titles.

"Poetry and cinema collide in Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout, as well as those of Andrei Tarkovsky."--Publisher's website.

Exploring themes of loss and memory, the book opens with an essay reflecting on the author's husband's sudden death, interweaving art, autopsy, and familial connections. The second section delves into the 18th-century Jonathan Edwards archives, featuring innovative collages inspired by Hannah Edwards Wetmore's diary, created using unconventional methods. The final part offers a collection of strikingly structured verses that blend beauty and emotional depth, creating a powerful resonance that invites contemplation.

Exploring the psychic past of America, Susan Howe intertwines poetry and prose in a journey inspired by the Labadists, a Utopian sect from the 17th century. The work features three long poems and prose pieces that delve into archives filled with historical remnants and ghosts. Central themes include connections to Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens, with motifs of silk and transformation, culminating in the poignant image of a wedding dress. Howe's unique style blends evocation with refraction, creating a rich tapestry of literary exploration.

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops." The New York Sun"

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, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Frederick Law Olmsted: a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With shades of wit, insomnia, and terror, The Midnight becomes a kind of dialogue in which the prose and poetry sections seem to be dreaming fitfully of each other.

Exploring themes of language and perception, this collection features three influential works by Susan Howe, originally published in the early 1980s. Each book delves into the complexities of communication and historical context, marking Howe as a pivotal figure in experimental literature. Her unique approach transforms words into both a journey of discovery and a potential source of uncertainty, inviting readers to navigate the intricate landscapes of meaning and memory. Critics have praised her work for its depth and innovative style.