Frame Structures (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Howe
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Family or family life, Literature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Emotions, War
Since the release of Susan Howe’s The Nonconformist’s Memorial in 1993, many readers have eagerly been waiting for her next book. Frame Structures turns out to be a collection of Howe’s early poems written and published between 1974 and 1979. It is only appropriate that a person whose inspiration derives as much from her interaction with the present as from her attachment to history decides to republish some of her earliest poems in the forms which she cares to have them last. It is a revisionist approach firmly grounded in what Howe believes should be permanent, a...
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