Pierce-Arrow

Pierce-Arrow

Pierce-Arrow takes as its shooting off point the figure of Charles S. Peirce, the allusive late nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of pragmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishments yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing.
Pierce-Arrow, Susan Howeâ€™s newest book of poems, takes as its point of departure the figure of Charles S. Peirce, the allusive nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of pragmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishment yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing. Through Peirce and his wife Juliette, a lady of shadowy antecedents, Howe creates an intriguing nexus that explores the darker, melancholy sides of the fin-de-siecle Anglo-American intelligentsia. George Meredith and his wife Mary Ellen, Swinburne and his companion Theodore Watts-Dunton, are among those who also find a place in the three long poem-sequences that comprise the book. Howeâ€™s historical linkings, resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war, create a compelling canvas of associations. â€œItâ€™s the blanks and gaps,â€ she says, â€œthat to me actually represent what poetry isâ€•the connections between seemingly unconnected thingsâ€•as if there is a place and might be a map to thought, when we know there is not.â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1999-06-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811214100

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1999-06-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811214100

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