That this

That this

by Howe, Susan

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What treasures of knowledge we cluster around. That This is a collection in three pieces. Disappearance Approach, an essay about the sudden death of the author s husband ( land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth ), begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy, Sarah Edwards and her sister-in-law Hannah, phantoms, elusive remnants, and snakes. Frolic Architecture, the second section inspired by visits to the vast 18th-century Jonathan Edwards archives at the Beinecke and ac…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :That this / Susan Howe.

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What treasures of knowledge we cluster around. That This is a collection in three pieces. Disappearance Approach, an essay about the sudden death of the author s husband ( land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth ), begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy, Sarah Edwards and her sister-in-law Hannah, phantoms, elusive remnants, and snakes. Frolic Architecture, the second section inspired by visits to the vast 18th-century Jonathan Edwards archives at the Beinecke and accompanied by six black-and-white photograms by James Welling presents hauntingly lovely, oblique text-collages that Howe (with scissors and invisible Scotch Tape and a Canon copier) has twisted, flattened, and snipped into inscapes of force. The final section, That This, delivers beautiful short squares of verse that might look at home in a hymnal, although their orderly appearance packs startling power.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):New Directions Pub
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:109 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780811219181, 0811219186
  • oclc:ocn668194074
  • LC Classification:PS3558.O893
  • Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

American poetry Poésie Poetry Poetry as Topic

Writers

Howe, Susan

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