Debths
Susan Howe's experimental collection brings together Paul Thek's art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, early American writings, and personal memory. Prose, fragments, and collage intersect as the book explores the depths of memory and archival material.
Work Information
From gaps in documents and personal memory, histories that never fully become voice begin to surface.
Debths is a five-part collection that moves from introductory prose into poetry, fragments, and visual collage. Through responses to early American writing and works of art, Howe layers memory, debt, depth, and death. No Japanese edition was confirmed, so the New Directions English edition is recorded.
Review Summaries
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The book is valued for treating documents, white space, and fragments as poetic material. Rather than relying on straightforward lyricism, it uses page arrangement and echoes of memory to make the uncertainty of language itself part of the reading.
Book Information
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Published
- 2017-06-27
- Pages
- 144 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.49 x 1.27 x 23.11 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811226851
- ISBN-10
- 0811226859
- Price
- 2985 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize
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 .
Reviews
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I love being able to enter a world through traces of vocabulary and hesitation. What more can art do for us than that?
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Incredible new poetry collection from our greatest living experimental and visual writer.
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excellent book and service.
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A poet's review of her poetic process, not confessional, but honest and provacative!
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Susan Howe can be a good poet, but that's no excuse for publishing these fragments and doodles and printing errors. They are of no more interest than the list of things in a Frenchman's apartment.