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Susan Howe's That This: Art at the Limits of the Canvas and the Page
Ist Teil von
Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics, 2024-06, Vol.47 (2), p.134-143
Ort / Verlag
Cuttack: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
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EZB Electronic Journals Library
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Susan Howe's difficulty has often led critics to address her poetry in relation to language poets and abstract expressionists causing many to read her poems as painterly hybrids dependent on reader-beholder experience rather than meaning. Putting Howe's poetry in conversation with Modernist painting, I establish that Howe's painterly aspects, like her 1960s counterparts on the verge of an ontological crisis, cease to be painterly. Although Howe's poems engage with the problems at the end of Modernist painting--the possibility of white space and pictorial composition--they do so with a canvas that has come to function like a page. Keywords: painting, poetry, canvas, page