Name: Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
ISBN: 9780811229777

Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives

Susan Howe

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Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James--all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here)--are the presiding spirits of Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives. Also woven into Susan Howe's long essay are beautiful photographs of embroideries and textiles from anonymous craftspeople. All the archived materials are links, discoveries, chance encounters, the visual and acoustic shocks of rooting around amid physical archives. These are the telepathies the bibliomaniacal poet relishes. Rummaging in the archives she finds "a deposit of a future yet to come, gathered and guarded...a literal and mythical sense of life hereafter--you permit yourself liberties--in the first place--happiness." Digital scholarship may offer much for scholars, but Susan Howe loves the materiality of research in real archives and Spontaneous Particulars "is a collaged swan song to the old ways."

Book Details

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: May 26th, 2020
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.40lb
EAN: 9780811229777
Categories: • American - African American & Black• Women Authors• Individual Artists - Essays

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About the Author

Howe, Susan: - Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, ThatThis, TheMidnight, MyEmilyDickinson, TheQuarry, and TheBirthmark.

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What people are saying

Julie Phillips Brown

@jphillipsbrown

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Poet • painter • critic • literature professor | THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE (@GreenWritersPub 2021) | MFA/PhD @EnglishCornell | EIC @housemtnreview | she/her/hers 🪷

@LesleyMWheeler Hmm. Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson and Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives. Rosemarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles. Anne Carson, Decreation. Lisa Robertson. Mary Ruefle. These are just off the top of my head, but there are tons more. Will give it a think.

My new novel, HOW LONG IS NOW, is now available from @SpuytenDuyvil: https://t.co/wZ3unfVpt9

Looking at Cave’s work I am reminded of a page from Susan Howe’s Spontaneous Particulars in which she presents the etymology of “adorn” as akin to “adore.” https://t.co/WPEfOaYKpv

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Author: What Pecan Light. Editor: @riverriverbooks. Host: @OfPoetryPodcast. Genderqueer. Southern. PhD Duke.

Poetry has no proof nor plan nor evidence by decree or in any other way. Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars

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Praise for this book

Susan Howe has often referred to herself as a 'library cormorant' but her extraordinary telepathy of archives is the very opposite of passive absorption: each page constructs its own ghostly skein to be woven into what becomes an increasingly mysterious figure in the carpet What begins as an archival study becomes nothing less than mesmerism.--Marjorie Perloff

Memorably fierce: with her long career in view today, her comment on Dickinson, in 1985, applies to Howe herself: 'A great poet, carrying the antique imagination of her fathers, requires of each reader to leap from a place of certain signification, to a new situation, undiscovered and sovereign. She carries intelligence of the past into future of our thought by reverence and revolt.--Langdon Hammer "The New York Review of Books"

What people are saying

Julie Phillips Brown

@jphillipsbrown

3 years

Poet • painter • critic • literature professor | THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE (@GreenWritersPub 2021) | MFA/PhD @EnglishCornell | EIC @housemtnreview | she/her/hers 🪷

My new novel, HOW LONG IS NOW, is now available from @SpuytenDuyvil: https://t.co/wZ3unfVpt9

Looking at Cave’s work I am reminded of a page from Susan Howe’s Spontaneous Particulars in which she presents the etymology of “adorn” as akin to “adore.” https://t.co/WPEfOaYKpv

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