Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe's Factual Telepathy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781584981411)

The essays collected in this volume are cross-genre hybrids of creative and critical enchantment with the multifaceted works of Susan Howe from 1969 to 2019. Through print and electronic, video and vinyl, manuscript and typescript, gallery installation and special collection media and methods, W. Scott Howard illuminates Howe's invisible colliding phenomena of folding floreate flare. Howard's prose modulates from lyrical invocations to theoretical discourses, becoming increasingly embedded in generative, unpredictable intersections among Howe's archives, artifacts, and factual telepathy. The book also includes an extensive interview with Susan Howe concerning chance and discipline in her poetics and praxis from My Emily Dickinson to Debths. Howard's writing moves within and against fields of study (mainly history, literature, and philosophy plus a few others here and there); across and through time periods (from the early modern to now), following a nonconformist's helical quest 'after' the poet's signal escapes.

Poetry.