The Europe of Trusts: Poetry
Will be published approx. on 31. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8112-1507-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Europe of Trusts contains three brilliant, long-unavailable books which Susan Howe first published in the early 1980s: The Liberties, Pythagorean Silence, and Defenestration of Prague. These are the landmark books--following her volumes from the previous decade (Hinge Picture, Chanting at the Crystal Sea, Cabbage Gardens, and Secret History of the Dividing Line)--which established Howe as "one of America's foremost experimental writers" (Publishers Weekly). "Her work," as Geoffrey O'Brien put it, "is a voyage of reconnaissance in language, a sounding out of ancient hiding places, and it is a voyage full of risk. 'Words are the only clues we have,' she has said. 'What if they fail us?'"
Reviews / Votes
"As one of the country's leading experimental poets...Howe knows that there is a "war-whoop in each dusty narrative" and words have the power to emancipate a person from the manacles of one's false self; they have the power to connect the present with the past and form with content." -- Magill's Literary Annual "Now a subtle blend, now a violent collision of poetry and scholarship...Howe is staking everything on the venture that theory and practice, artifice and application, are perpetually and messily entwined. It is a proposition that seems self-evident, and at the same time seldom in evidence." -- Brian Lemmon - The Boston Review "Howe's images, being historical as well as biographical, have the eerie shading of ghosts half-believed-in, giving...a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere reminiscent of Borges at his sharpest." -- Kirkus ReviewsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-1507-7 (9780811215077)
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