Description: "Howe's poems are fact of a consummately gifted ear and a singularly compassionate intelligence. She sounds the complex particulars of history's echoes with an intensity altogether her own. This is major work in every sense"--Robert Creeley "Among contemporary poets, Susan Howe is unique in her ability to make history her own, to transfrom the archive and chronicle into an elusive, elliptical, and yet deeply personal drama in which the New England of the Indian wars, the New England of the Thoreau enter the consciousness of the woman artist, working in the American fin de sicle. As in such earlier works as Defenestration of Prague , the real hero of these 'poems including history' is language -- the language charges with conflicting sounds and meanings, whose sedimentation gradually reveals this visionary poet's superb Singularities ."--Marjorie Perloff "Susan Howe weaves at the tears in the all-too-violent fabric that imparts national identity to America. She sings of origins and hears the blanks firing in the night of her exploding syllables."--Charles Bernstein

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