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Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer—her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in her seminal textural scholarship in examination of their editorial histories of landmark works. In the process, Howe uproots settled institutionalized roles of men and women as well as of poetry and prose—and of poetry and prose. The Birth-mark, first published in 1993, now joins the New Directions canon of a dozen Susan Howe titles.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294872580469,"sku":"9780811224659","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780811224659_2383bf78-dbac-4149-8ce2-5d63071ead1d.jpg?v=1786015978"},{"product_id":"9780811220392","title":"Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker","description":"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 record somethingbecause I am a survivor in this ocean.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294907183477,"sku":"9780811220392","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780811220392_5dc810d4-5cb8-4f7f-835f-1175ecb103ea.jpg?v=1786015960"},{"product_id":"9780811229777","title":"Spontaneous Particulars – Telepathy of Archives","description":"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 of Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives. Also woven into Susan Howe’s long essay are beautiful photographs of embroideries and textiles from anonymous craftspeople. All the archived materials are links, discoveries, chance encounters, the visual and acoustic shocks of rooting around amid physical archives. These are the telepathies the bibliomaniacal poet relishes. Rummaging in the archives she finds “a deposit of a future yet to come, gathered and guarded...a literal and mythical sense of life hereafter—you permit yourself liberties—in the first place—happiness.” Digital scholarship may offer much for scholars, but Susan Howe loves the materiality of research in real archives and Spontaneous Particulars “is a collaged swan song to the old ways.”","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295049199989,"sku":"9780811229777","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780811229777_c5708689-db5c-4c0a-9df5-74c7aa5e2e30.jpg?v=1786016014"},{"product_id":"9780811222464","title":"The Quarry – Essays","description":"A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new \"Vagrancy in the Park\" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as \"The Disappearance Approach,\" \"Personal Narrative,\" \"Sorting Facts,\" \"Frame Structures,\" and \"Where Should the Commander Be,\" and ending with her seminal early criticism, \"The End of Art.\" The essays of The Quarry map the intellectual territory of one of America's most important and vital avant-garde poets.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311959716213,"sku":"9780811222464","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780811222464_2e1e3679-4ebe-46b7-a5ff-c31f6bcae5bb.jpg?v=1786015973"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-susan-howe.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}