The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's writing. Will Montgomery argues that her highly opaque texts reflect the resistance that the past offers to contemporary investigation. Addressing lyric, literary history, collage and visual poetics, The Poetry of Susan Howe is a lucid and persuasive investigation of the volatile movements of this extraordinary body of work.

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WILLIAM MONTGOMERY is Research Fellow in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Introduction The Maternal Disinheritance The Ghost of the Father Susan Howe's Renaissance The Poetics of American Space Enthusiasm, Telepathy, and Immediacy The Late Lyric