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This book is a comprehensive guide to Susan Howe's major work and addresses such key themes as poetic form, history, and authority. The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's writing. Will Montgomery argues that her highly opaque texts reflect the resistance that the past offers to contemporary investigation. Addressing lyric, literary history, collage and visual poetics, The Poetry of Susan Howe is a lucid and persuasive investigation of the volatile movements of this extraordinary body of work. "Most readings of Susan Howe's poetry to date have been insider views: they account for Howe's themes, images, and structures by lining these up with her own stated views and purposes.- Will Montgomery's may thus be the first to read Howe's oeuvre critically, to examine what he sees as the unresolved but productive tension in Howe's work 'between a poetry of redress and a poetry of grace.' To call Howe's writing (whether 'poetry' or 'prose') 'anti-authoritarian' or 'an

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Author

Montgomery, William; Howe, Susan

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349383757

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, History, Literary Criticism