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Defenestration of Prague
CONTENTS: (1) DEFENESTRATION OF PRAGUE (i) Tuning the Sky (ii) Speeches at the Barriers (iii) Bride’s Day (2) THE LIBERTIES (i) Fragments of a Liquidation (ii) I (iii) Book of Stella (iv) Book of Cordella (v) II God’s Spies (vi) III.
- GenresPoetry
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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About the author
Susan Howe
66 books161 followersSusan Howe was born in 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books of poems and two volumes of criticism. Her most recent poetry collections are The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of Trusts (2002), Pierce-Arrow (1999), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 (1996), The Nonconformist's Memorial (1993), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (1990), and Singularities (1990).
Her books of criticism are The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was named an "International Book of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily Dickinson (1985).
Her work also has appeared in Anthology of American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson (Oxford University Press, 1999); The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2003); and Poems for the Millennium, Volume 2, edited by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rotherberg (1998).
She has received two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 1996 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in the winter of 1998 she was a distinguished fellow at the Stanford Institute of the Humanities.
Her books of criticism are The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was named an "International Book of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily Dickinson (1985).
Her work also has appeared in Anthology of American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson (Oxford University Press, 1999); The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2003); and Poems for the Millennium, Volume 2, edited by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rotherberg (1998).
She has received two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 1996 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in the winter of 1998 she was a distinguished fellow at the Stanford Institute of the Humanities.
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August 17, 2024
this feels like it's gonna stick
February 10, 2020
Rarely I glimpse a sensibility that feels familiar and open to me in this way. By no means is the text easy to understand, but what is going on with sound and image and language builds its own experience and meaning. I feel in love with the words here and the order they are in, it was sometimes surprising, sometimes beautiful, but I found it all strange and interesting and very much alive, and somewhat mysterious. I was very excited reading this, sensing themes about power, history, identity and being.
January 3, 2011
Love all her works but I would not recommend newcomers to her to begin with this one.
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