{"product_id":"frame-structures-early-poems-1974-1979-paperback","title":"Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathered here are versions of \u003cem\u003eHinge Picture\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eChanting at the Crystal Sea\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), \u003cem\u003eCabbage Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), and \u003cem\u003eSecret History of the Dividing Line\u003c\/em\u003e (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, Frame Structures, written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the iconography of the written word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Howe is a professor of English at the State University of New York--Buffalo. Most of her later poetry has been collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Nonconformist's Memorial\u003c\/em\u003e (New Directions, 1993), \u003cem\u003eThe Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Sun \u0026amp; Moon Press, 1990), and \u003cem\u003eSingularities\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 1990). She is also the author of two landmark books of postmodernist criticism, \u003cem\u003eThe Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) and \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e (North Atlantic Books, 1985).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Frame Structures, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last. Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, \"Frame Structures\", written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the iconography of the written word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.02 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston Book Review (1997)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757740458272,"sku":"9780811213226","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5f610b8d2b588b4d364e62ef09dd52a5.webp?v=1780110615","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/frame-structures-early-poems-1974-1979-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}