Author : Elisabeth W. Joyce
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 297
This book is about Susan Howes poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless migrants, and the uncharted lands. Nuances, frontiers, thresholds, edges, fuzzinesses, ambiguities, pauses, singularities, margins: these are the spaces where her poetry occurs, places that lie between two states. Rather than absences, therefore, the space of this poetry is a placing of being, of what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari refer to as becoming. Third space is contested because it must also call itself into question in reimagining itself; in questioning its condition and rethinking itself, it contradicts itself repeatedly, setting up the form of an ever-present yet ever-shifting paradox of selfpresencing. This site is also, however, the place of no frames or boundaries, a place that is all margins and singularities, that site of displacement, where migration is eternal and violence is perennial. Nomadism becomes an emblem in Howes poetry for the twentieth-century condition as it represents the continual movement through space of the body, that never-ending, always-perpetuated sense of loss of place, but that equally charged coming into being regardless of the space within which that loss/becoming occurs. This book, therefore, includes chapters on multiple conceptual frameworks for configuring space: cartography, geometry, graphic design, sculpture, landscape, perspective, as well as displacement itself. Its purpose is to introduce upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and academics in the field of poetics to Susan Howes poetry but also to suggest that mere reading is inadequate to a comprehension of her work; it is equally important to look at her work as a visual artifact that shapes the world around it as it is shaped in turn by its social and historical context. The key term for Howes poetry, singularity, is emblematic of this approach, for it identifies the particular, but it also focuses on the moment of change of state, a moment neither here nor there, not one thing nor another. It is at this instant of transformation and flux that Howes poetry, and, therefore, this study, situate themselves, in a third place. This work relies extensively on Susan Howes manuscript materials housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego. It also turns to multiple disciplines, including art history, mathematics, anthropology and philosophy, in order to establish a comprehensive study of poetry and spatial organization systems.
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