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Susan Howe

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Susan Howe

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性別
女性
生誕
1937-06-10 （Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Cambridge, Massachusetts → New York, NY → Guilford, Connecticut

経歴

職業
Poet, Scholar, Essayist, Critic
活動期間
1974年〜
所属
University at Buffalo, Poetics Program (faculty), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (member)
所属団体
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (member), Academy of American Poets (Chancellor)
影響を受けた人物
Language poets (e.g., Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian), Archival and historical documentary poetics

学歴

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (formerly School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Fine Arts
期間: 〜1961
卒業年: 1961
国: United States
After graduation she moved to New York and worked as a painter

受賞歴

American Book Award
1981
主催: Before Columbus Foundation
結果: 受賞
American Book Award
1986
主催: Before Columbus Foundation
結果: 受賞
Bollingen Prize in American Poetry
2011
主催: Yale University
結果: 受賞
Robert Frost Medal
2017
主催: Poetry Society of America
結果: 受賞
Berlin Prize
2009
主催: American Academy in Berlin
結果: フェローシップ
Guggenheim Fellowship
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞（年不明）
Roy Harvey Pearce Prize for Lifetime Achievement
結果: 受賞（年不詳）
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999
主催: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
結果: 選出

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

That This

2010年 Poetry

A long poem weaving historical documents and fragments into discontinuous images and language to probe American history and personal memory.

historyarchivesmemory

Debths

2017年 Poetry

A collection combining visual and prose-poetry elements, notable for formal experiments and historical references.

formal experimentationvoice and soundfragments of history

Souls of the Labadie Tract

2007年 Poetry

An experimental work combining archival documents and poetic fragments to reconstruct historical voices.

archivesreconstructing voiceshistory

The Midnight

2003年 Poetry

An experimental poetry collection that intersects personal and historical materials.

personal historyhistorical fragments

The Europe of Trusts

1990年 Poetry

An early selected poems volume showing Howe's nascent historical concerns and formal experiments.

historyformlanguage experimentation

全著作

  • The Europe of Trusts (1990)
  • That This (2010)
  • Debths (2017)
  • Concordance (2020)
  • Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007)
  • The Midnight (2003)
  • Pierce-Arrow (1999)
  • My Emily Dickinson (1985)
  • Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives (2014)

作風・主題

文体
Postmodern, fragmentary and collage-like styleExperimental poetics that incorporates archival and historical textsLayered expression including sonic and visual elements
頻出モチーフ
history and archivesquotation and documentary recordsrepetition of voice and soundinterest in Emily Dickinson

評価・遺産

Susan Howe is known for archival-oriented experimental poetics and postmodern formal experimentation, exerting significant influence on Language poetry and contemporary poetry. She is highly regarded both academically and poetically.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences

資料所蔵先

  • Susan Howe Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Susan Howe Papers, UC San Diego Special Collections (MSS 0201)

豆知識

  • Her mother was Irish playwright Mary Manning; a rumor that Samuel Beckett was her biological father was disproved by DNA tests.
  • Married painter Harvey Quaytman in 1961, later David von Schlegell, and later Peter Hewitt Hare (widowed); has two grown children, R.H. Quaytman and Mark von Schlegell.
  • Since 2003 she collaborated with musician David Grubbs and released several CDs.