title: The Quarry: Essays
author: Susan Howe
description: Reaching back through Hawthorne, Dickinson and beyond, Susan Howe taps a stream of American thinking that is as as clear and fresh as a draught of well water. She is our conscience, our voice, our song.<br /> - <strong>John Ashbery</strong><br /><br />No other poet now writing has Howe's power to bring together narrative and lyric, scholarship and historical speculation, found text and pure invention.<br /> - <strong>Marjorie Perloff</strong><br /><br />Universally recognized as a major poet, Susan Howe should also be known as the most innovative, the most thrilling essayist writing today.<br /> - <strong>Eliot Weinberger</strong><br /><br />Marvelous with a visionary apprehension of what is to come, telepathic communication with past poetries, histories, lives, material and spiritual realities.<br /> - <strong>Jonathan Creasey, <em>The Los Angeles Review of Books</em></strong><br /><br />Howe's brilliant, idiosyncratic essay islike much of her worka combination of fierce rigor and deep generosity. Howe unlocks.<br /> - <strong>Ben Lerner</strong><br /><br />She manages to balance the most cerebral passages with a sharp eye for just the right detail...Howe is not for casual readers, but serious ones will be amply rewarded.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />For fans of Howe's poetry and readers fascinated by artistic process.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />Howe's words give the impression of echoing another, hidden poetry of which we catch only fragments, like an opera sung in another roomexcept that the other room is death, or history, or the ineffable.<br /> - <strong>Geoffrey O'Brien, <em>The Village Voice</em></strong><br /><br />The end result is something of a photographic negative: history refreshed and personalized by virtue of its own estrangement.<br /> - <strong>Dustin Illingworth, <em>3:AM</em></strong><br /><br />Monomania has its rewardsan incantatory power that shines through. Howe's images, being historical as well as biographical, have the eerie shading of ghosts half-believed in, giving a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere reminiscent of Borges at his sharpest.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong>
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