The Nonconformist's Memorial: Poems

by Susan Howe and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into two sections,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811212297
• ISBN13: 9780811212298
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"