"The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought and authority in the writing. Howe's poetry, in this account, is a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary investigation - the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims is discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Addressing lyric, literary history and visual poetics, The Poetry of Susan Howe is a lucid and persuasive investigation of the volatile movements of this extraordinary body of work"--