The Midnight

Howe, Susan

ISBN 10: 0811215385 / ISBN 13: 9780811215381

Published by New Directions, 2003

About this Item

signed by author on title page; signature obtained in person by bookseller; an elegy for the poet's mother.

Seller Inventory # 4315

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Midnight
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811215385
• ISBN 13: 9780811215381
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • literature

About this title

Synopsis

New poetry and prose from a most acclaimed experimental American poet.

In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find―swirling around the poet's mother―ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Frederick Law Olmsted: a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With shades of wit, insomnia, and terror, The Midnight becomes a kind of dialogue in which the prose and poetry sections seem to be dreaming fitfully of each other.

About the Author

Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, ThatThis, TheMidnight, MyEmilyDickinson, TheQuarry, and TheBirthmark.