{"product_id":"9780811223768","title":"Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFrame Structures\u003c\/em\u003e, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGathered here are versions of \u003cem\u003eHinge Picture\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eChanting at the Crystal Sea\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), \u003cem\u003eCabbage Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), and \u003cem\u003eSecret History of the Dividing Line\u003c\/em\u003e (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, \"Frame Structures,\" written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the iconography of the written word.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Howe is a professor of English at the State University of New York—Buffalo. Most of her later poetry has been collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Nonconformist's Memorial\u003c\/em\u003e (New Directions, 1993), \u003cem\u003eThe Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Sun \u0026amp; Moon Press, 1990), and \u003cem\u003eSingularities\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 1990). She is also the author of two landmark books of postmodernist criticism, \u003cem\u003eThe Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history\u003c\/em\u003e (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) and \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e (North Atlantic Books, 1985).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129184141552,"sku":"9780811223768","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223768_p0.jpg?v=1763741170","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}