Poetry 26/9: Reading Susan Howe w/ Jessica Wilkinson This Friday @ Animal Orchestra, from 5 for a start of 5 15 sharp. Susan Howe (1937- ) is an idiosyncratic, important and increasingly influential American poet. She is known for innovative verse that crosses genres and disciplines in its theoretical underpinnings and approach to history. Layered and allusive, her work draws on early American history and primary documents, weaving quotation and image into poems that often revise standard typography. Howe’s interest in the visual possibilities of language can be traced back to her initial interest in painting: she earned a degree from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1961, and enjoyed some success with gallery shows in New York. Howe has received numerous honours and awards for her work, including two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation and a Guggenheim fellowship. She taught for many years at the State University of New York-Buffalo, where she held the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities. ‘Language is a wild interioriy. I am lost in the refuge of its dark life. ‘Poets are always beginning again. They sail away to a place they hope they can name. Linguistic nature is always foreign. Grammar bales the darkness open. Only a few strike home. They remember and acknowledge each other.’ – Susan Howe This week we are lucky to be joined by guest presenter Jessica Wilkinson, a Melbourne poet and editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. Her poetry book, “marionette: a biography of miss marion davies”, was published by Vagabond Press in 2012. She teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University. Our readings handout for this week is quite substantial, and well be drawing on the lot of it in the meeting. As such, the reading group kindly requests that on this occasion attendees print their own copies to bring to the meeting. Ideally you will be somewhat familiar with the material prior to attending the meeting. (You will find the handout in the post above) Susan Howe interviewe @ The Paris Review (2012): theparisreview.org/interviews/6189/the-art-of-poetry-no-97-susan-howe SH Biography: poetryfoundation.org/bio/susan-howe#poet Hope to see you there, Simon and Alex
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