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Bed Hangings
Poetry. Art. "Bed Hangings" is a superb example of a writer-artist collaboration. Susan Bee's "pictures" do not merely illustrate Susan Howe's poems, but intermingle with them, frame them, and playfully affect their interpretation.
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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Susan Howe
66 books162 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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January 20, 2022
A short book of poems by language poet Susan Howe. With pictures by Susan Bee...
Go to my savage pattern
on surface material the line
in ink if you have curtains
and a New English dictionary
there is nothing to justify a
claim for linen except a late
quotation knap warp is flax
Fathom we without cannot
Nor hemp to pleasure pillow
Nor clay scorn to cover as if
sphere of the pent lake hold
Infold me bird and briar you
fathom we cannot to another
declare characters in written
summit granite cramp marble
Simple except a blank that it
June 19, 2007
This is a great read! Particularly for those, like me, from New England, for its historical content....
February 8, 2010
Yes this is an oversized book of poetry about and pictures representing bed hangings. Infinite stars.
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