Susan Howe

The Nonconformist's Memorial: Poems

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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 wha… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1229-8
EAN: 9780811212298
Produktnummer: 2757786
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.4 cm 243 g
Auflage: New
Reihenbandnummer: 755
Gewicht: 243

Über den Autor

Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, That This, The Midnight, My Emily Dickinson, The Quarry, and The Birthmark.