Susan Howe (1937-)

A selective list of online literary criticism for poet Susan Howe, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages


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literary criticism

Back, Rachel Tzvia. A review of Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (U of Alabama P 2002). Reviewed in Criticism, Summer, 2002 by Megan Simpson

Collis, Stephen. "Archival Tactics and the Poet-Scholar: Susan Howe and Charles Olson." West Coast Line [ejournal]

(removed) DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "The Work Of Susan Howe," in HOW(ever), Vol 1, No. 4 (May 1984)

Dworkin, Craig. A review of Dworkin's Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP). Reviewed by Jacques Khalip in Boston Review Oct./Nov. 2004

Fischer, Barbara K. "Into the Language Lab." Boston Review, March/April 2007

Jullich, Jeffrey A review of Bed Hangings by Susan Howe (Granary Books). Reviewed in Electronic Poetry Review #1, 2001

Kinnahan, Linda A. A review of Kinnahan's Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004). Reviewed in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2004 by Lynn Keller

Kunin, Aaron. A review of Pierce-Arrow. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Fall 1999

Lazer, Hank. "The People's Poetry." Boston Review, April/May 2004

Lennon, Brian. A review of Susan Howe's Pierce-Arrow (New Directions Press). Reviewed in Boston Review, Nov./Dec. 1999

(removed) Marsh, Nicky. "'Out of My Texts I Am Not What I Play': Politics and self in the poetry of Susan Howe." College Literature, Oct. 1997

Mitchell-Foust, Michelle. Review of Susan Howe's The Midnight. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Winter 2003/2004

Nicholls, Peter. "Unsettling the Wilderness: Susan Howe and American History," first page of article only. Contemporary Literature, 37, 4 (Winter 1996)

Palattella, John. "All about Her Mother," a review of The Midnight. Reviewed in the Boston Review, Dec./Jan. 2004

Quartermain, Peter. A review of Quartermain's Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe. First page of article only. Reviewed by Ulla E. Dydo in Modern Philology, 92, 3 (Feb. 1995)

Perloff, Marjorie. "Language Poetry And The Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman's Albany, Susan Howe's Buffalo"

Schultz, Susan. "Exaggerated History," a review of Susan Howe's The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History and The Nonconformist's Memorial. Postmodern Culture 4,2 (January 1994)

Schultz, Susan M. "Poetics at Buffalo." Jacket 1 (October 1997)


introduction, overview

An introduction to Susan Howe, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (U of Illinois)

The Electronic Poetry Center web page on Susan Howe includes links to some of her online writing and syllabi from nine of her courses taught between 1992 and 1999. SUNY Buffalo


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