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- Page 11 and 12: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Foremost let me ext
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Pound has not abandoned his essenti
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imagine and their officers have mor
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fact that the “body intact and fo
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historical poetics. In this respect
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1.6) Susan Howe’s “Historical I
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It should not be surprising if this
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guide and protect her. She is surro
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supposed to give him a far superior
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stories is historical determinism.
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air’; to some preoccupation of it
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CHAPTER 2. SUSAN HOWE IN THE 1970S
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his writing he invokes the tautolog
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unity rather than tension in its fo
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And I saw no temple therein: for th
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simple paintings; simplicity was th
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then von Schlegell or the interview
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discussed in “The End of Art,”
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Classicists are people that look ou
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Smithson understands the world acco
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2.3) “A Clutter of Characters and
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Although the main body of the poem
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Howe describes Reinhardt’s comics
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If the only goal of this chapter we
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One question is why she cites both
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American lineage, often at the expe
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eligious history in her later poems
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accessible passes roman forest crag
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Language is cited again in the last
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if the cogito is forced to constant
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in which her work would have a read
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the context of the Cold War and the
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FIGURE 2.2 India Wharf Sculpture is
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Howe’s sister, was one of the edi
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why in “Boston Harbor” the read
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All external marks of abuse are pre
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oth in poetry and in prose, is all
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whimper no far pillar for the world
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Once again David von Schegell enter
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female mariner. She has survived de
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Henry James (1843-1916) once charac
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near a blank space pointed to by tw
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CHAPTER 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DOCUME
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method most vigorously hostile to t
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that events must be “set in motio
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the documents because the history i
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elating to her husband as well as t
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writing about Gaudier, but rather t
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elow, Howe identifies her inheritan
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143 FIGURE 3.1
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145 FIGURE 3.3
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147 FIGURE 3.5
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sketchbooks also reveal Howe’s lo
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same kind of personal quote is foun
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esult (or peril as some might see i
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Rel. Ex. / Praise to the End - Roet
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her own efforts. In the following,
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The central problem in life is to a
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161 FIGURE 3.6
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163 FIGURE 3.7
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have of beginnings. As I read it, H
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quest. In the next section, I look
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Donald Hall (two on Marianne Moore)
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can be brought together and / gone
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one who strove his utmost to champi
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Punning / A Discourse to Prove the
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contemptible than to suppose public
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But here is the problem: a cry, (1)
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autobiography of an inherited self
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sketchbook, which unlike others, ha
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Beneath it Howe writes: “Why I li
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But I think the community in which
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CHAPTER 4. HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND
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does he want to be “looking / for
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few potshots taken at the “academ
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can have no meaning but the escape
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Préface” (1946), “Bigmans” (
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and ungainly—sprawled every which
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Mayan Letters), and the essays “P
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to find how those facts or laws det
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The New Empire, and he was rereadin
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For the first time—right now—ma
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found in his review of a book by a
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“What we need is more of the text
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exterior forces, such as by culture
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“my king” before a sovereign en
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with Dickinson will surely be in th
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upbringing, through the medium of S
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could see a corresponding inheritan
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“possible identity” of the reci
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Eternity dawned Solitary watcher of
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anticipates the statement in My Emi
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participating in these and other sm
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a woman writer. Unlike Olson, for e
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has a primacy that can never be who
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structures or that they were intend
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constitutive of, the world, which i
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the point, this figure has never be
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audience should imitate or idolize
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are recognized. “As plants conver
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when, were he in his shoes before u
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Pound. This is unlike how Lowell ch
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Howe is probably not responding dir
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POSTSCRIPT: NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY I'm t
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sense of autobiography, or new auto
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existing identity, whether it is th
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she says, “we were ‘living’ p
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individual but rather of the limite
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Adorno, Theodore W. Pr
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Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emil
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Mallarmé, Stéphane. Mallarmé: Se
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Quartermain, Peter. Disjunctive Poe