Part 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.An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammarhas no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to re[...]
This boxed set of the first twelve collections in the New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series contains: Osama Alomar's Fullbood ArabianH. D.'s Vale AveLawrence Ferlinghetti's Blast Cries LaughterForrest Gander's Eiko & KomaOliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a StreetcarSusan Howe's Sorting Facts, or 1[...]
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 here) are the presiding spirits ofSpontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of A[...]
A celebration of language by a gifted poet.
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 t[...]
Contemporary experimental poetry? By women? But is this women's writing? The type of poetry that is central to this book has long been met with surprise, if not rejection, by both critics and the general public. This volume is an introduction to recent developments in women's poetic experiments, an [...]