ISBN: 9780811212298

A poetic re-piecing of history.The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing t… More...

A poetic re-piecing of history.The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into two sections, Turning and Conversion, in half-ironic nonconforming counterpart to Eliot's Four Quartets. Her collaging and mirror-imaging of words are concretions of verbal static, visual meditations on what can and cannot be said. For Howe, Melville's Marginalia is the essential poem in the collection, an approach to an elusive and allusive mind through Melville's own reading and the notations in his library books. This, says Howe, is Language a wood for thought. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, New Directions Publishing Corporation Core >1<

ISBN: 9780811212298

The Nonconformist''s Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe''s reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of langua… More...

The Nonconformist''s Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe''s reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into two sections, Turning"" and ""Conversion,"" in half-ironic nonconforming counterpart to Eliot''s Four Quartets . Her collaging and mirror-imaging of words are concretions of verbal static, visual meditations on what can and cannot be said. For Howe, ""Melville''s Marginalia"" is the essential poem in the collection, an approach to an elusive and allusive mind through Melville''s own reading and the notations in his library books. This, says Howe, is ""Language a wood for thought."" "" | The Nonconformist's Memorial by Susan Howe Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Poetry P10106, Susan Howe<

ISBN: 9780811212298

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ISBN: 9780811212298

Paperback, [PU: New Directions Publishing Corporation], A poetic re-piecing of history., Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

ISBN: 9780811212298

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