Pierce-Arrow

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ISBN: 9780811214100

ISBN-10: 0811214109

ISBN-13: 9780811214100

Edition: 1999

Authors: Susan Howe

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Through Peirce and his wife Juliette, a lady of shadowy antecedents, Howe creates an intriguing nexus that explores the darker, melancholy sides of the fin de siècle Anglo-American intelligentsia. Besides George Meredith and his wife Mary Ellen, Swinburne and his companion Theodore Watts-Dunton are among those who also find a place in the three poem-sequences that comprise the book: "Arisbe," "The Leisure of the Theory Class," and "Rückenfigur." Howe's historical linkings, resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war, create a compelling canvas of associations. "It's the blanks and gaps," she says, "that to me actually represent what poetry is-the connections between…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 6/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Acclaimed poet Susan Howe, winner of the last Bollingen Prize, is the author of the seminal work, My Emily Dickinson.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Arisbe


The Leisure of the Theory Class


Ruckenfigur