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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Back, Rachel Tzvia. A review of Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (Univ. of Alabama Press, 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]
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "The Work Of Susan Howe," in HOW(ever), Vol 1, No. 4 (May, 1984) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts0584.html)
Dworkin, Craig. A review of Dworkin's Reading the Illegible (Northwestern Univ. Press). Reviewed by Jacques Khalip in Boston Review Oct./Nov. 2004
Fischer, Barbara K. "Into the Language Lab." In 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." In 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
Marsh, Nicky. "'Out of My Texts I Am Not What I Play': Politics and self in the poetry of Susan Howe." In 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, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 586-601
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, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Feb., 1995), pp. 390-394
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. From Postmodern Culture 4,2 (January, 1994)
Schultz, Susan M. "Poetics at Buffalo." In Jacket 1, October 1997
On Susan Howe's writings as a series of counter-measures against the male literary canon. Presented at the conference Poetry and the Public Sphere, April 1997 (removed from http://english.rutgers.edu/brian.htm)
An introduction to Susan Howe, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. 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
A very brief introduction to Susan Howe from the Academy of American Poets
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