Susan M Howe

Religious Literature of the West

The Nonconformist's Memorial: Poems

Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979

Pierce-Arrow

The Europe of Trusts

The Midnight

My Emily Dickinson

Souls of the Labadie Tract

Pierce-Arrow

Pierce-Arrow takes as its shooting off point the figure of Charles S. Peirce, the allusive late nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of pragmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishments yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing. Thro...

The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history

Susan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic, blending scholarship with passionate commitment and unique view of her subject. The Birth-mark traces the collusive relationships among tradition, the constitution of critical editions, literary history and criticism, the institutio...

Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions Paperbook)

Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring (or unsettling) one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America. This time the presiding tutelary geniuses are Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens. Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its...

Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris MarkerPart of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout....

The Birth-mark: Essays

Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature. Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where eachtext is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters, professors, and editors eager for settlement. Howe approache...

That This (New Directions Books)

Susan Howe’s newest book of poetry is a revelation as well as a mystery. “What treasures of knowledge we cluster around.” That This is a collection in three pieces. “Disappearance Approach,” an essay about the sudden death of the author’s husband (“land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mout...

My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."―The New York Sun With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all h...

Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives (New Directions Books)

A rapturous paean to discoveries and archives, gorgeously illustrated.Great American writers―William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James ― all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles h...