{"product_id":"howe-susan-pierce-arr","title":"Howe, Susan: Pierce-Arrow","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Directions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 17, 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePierce-Arrow,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSusan Howe'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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003efin-de-siecle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. Howe's historical linkings, resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war, create a compelling canvas of associations. \"It's the blanks and gaps,\" she says, \"that to me actually represent what poetry is--the connections between seemingly unconnected things--as if there is a place and might be a map to thought, when we know there is not.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817178411031,"sku":"9780811214100","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61zA6_1xYsL._SL1200.jpg?v=1793920502","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/howe-susan-pierce-arr","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}