Susan Howe is the author of several books of poems and two books of criticism. Her most recent collections of poetry are The Noncomformist’s Memorial (New Directions, 1993), Frame Structures; Early Poems 1974-78 (New Directions, 1996), and Pierce-Arrow due from New Directions in the spring of 1999. Her books of criticism are My Emily Dickinson (North Atlantic Books, 1985),
and The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history (Wesleyan University Press, 1993). In 1996 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in the winter of 1998 she was a distinguished fellow at the Stanford Institute of the Humanities. She is currently a professor of English at the State University of New York
at Buffalo. |