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The Quarry: Essays by Susan (state University Of New York, Buffalo) Howe is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces. A powerful selection of Susan Howe’s key essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new “Vagrancy in the Park” (about Wallace Stevens) through essential texts such as “The Disappearance Approach,” “Personal Narrative,” “Sorting Facts; or, 47 Ways of Looking at Chris Marker,” “Frame Structures,” and “Where Should the Commander Be” to end with her seminal early art criticism, “The End of Art.” ** Review “Reaching back through Hawthorne, Dickinson and beyond, Susan Howe taps a stream of American thinking that is as as clear and fresh as a draught of well water. She is our conscience, our voice, our song.” (John Ashbery) “No other poet now writing has Howe's power to bring together narrative and lyric, scholarship and historical speculation, found text and pure invention.” (Marjorie Perloff) “Universally recognized as a major poet, Susan Howe should also be known as the most innovative, the most thrilling essayist writing today.” (Eliot Weinberger) “Marvelous with a visionary apprehension of what is to come, telepathic communication with past poetries, histories, lives, material and spiritual realitie

Who reads The Quarry: Essays?

Author

Susan (state University Of New York, Buffalo) Howe

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811222464

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

4.33 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14