Led by Language - The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe

This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical,
autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this enigmatic and important contemporary American poet.

About the author

Rachel Back is an adjunct professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the author of Azimuth, a collection of poetry.

Summary

In this study, poet and scholar Rachel Tzvia Back offers a close and detailed reading of Susan Howe's provocative and powerful poetry. Howe's work is dense, often difficult, but always distinctive, and Back's volume explains a number of features crucial to understanding her poems.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Back, Rachel Tzivia Back, Rachel Tzvia Back
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9780817311322
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1132-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies