The Midnight

In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find-swirling around the poet's mother-ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Frederick Law Olmsted: a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With shades of wit, insomnia, and terror, The Midnight becomes a kind of dialogue in which the prose and poetry sections seem to be dreaming fitfully of each other.

About the author

Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, That This, The Midnight, My Emily Dickinson, The Quarry, and The Birthmark.

Summary

New poetry and prose from a most acclaimed experimental American poet.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Howe, Susan (State University of New York Howe
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2003
• EAN: 9780811215381
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-1538-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 151 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Series: New Directions Paperbook; New Directions Paperbook
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature