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The Poetry of Susan Howe

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230113091

ISBN: 978-1-349-38375-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 6, 2015

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The Maternal Disinheritance

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 1 –26

[Susan Howe has said that she finds the split in her between Irish and American to be the respective pulls of mother and father—a “civil war in the soul.”1 One way, indeed, of approaching her works is to step back for a moment from their broader historical and theoretical engagements and consider...
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The Ghost of the Father

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 27 –53

[Alongside the maternal associations of identity, speech, and inheritance discussed in the previous chapter, there runs in Howe’s work an appraisal of ideas of law, authority, and patriarchy. Often the two currents are intertwined, and I do not wish to suggest a schematic division of the work...
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Susan Howe’s Renaissance

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 55 –78

[Two key texts, written concurrently, helped to cement Howe’s reputation in the early 1980s. These were Pythagorean Silence (1982) and Defenestration of Prague (1983), originally published separately but later collected alongside The Liberties in The Europe of Trusts (1990) in the Sun and Moon...
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The Poetics of American Space

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 79 –111

[Howe begins her long poetic engagement with American history in Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975). Throughout this early sequence, there are passages that read as though they have been abstracted from the narratives of early settlers. There are many apparent references to the precarious...
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Enthusiasm, Telepathy, and Immediacy

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 113 –143

[In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Howe was a visual artist, working with installations that combined text and photographs.1Hinge Picture, her first book of poetry, was published in 1974 by Maureen Owen’s Telephone Books. It has as its epigraph a quotation from Marcel Duchamp, an artist she...
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The Late Lyric

Montgomery, Will

Pages: 145 –166

[Much of Howe’s recent work is defined by an encounter with lyric. In Rückenfigur, the Bed Hangings poems, and Souls of the Labadie Tract Howe incorporates repetitive structures into brief, short-lined, sound-driven poems that have a remarkable density.1 Although repetition, as I argued in my...

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