"Howe should be read in the company of Pound, Stevens, Stein, Ashbery, and other American poets who reconfigured the ground rules of their art. With her long career in view today, her comment on Dickinson, in 1985, applies to Howe herself: A great poet, carrying the antique imagination of her fathers, requires of each reader to leap from a place of certain signification, to a new situation, undiscovered, and sovereign. She carries intelligence of the past into the future of our thought by reverence and revolt." -- Langdon Hammer - New York Review of Books "Howe has occupied a particular and invaluable place in American poetry. Shes a rigorously skeptical and a profoundly visionary poet, a writer whose demystifying intelligence is matched by a passionate embrace of poetrys rejuvenating power." -- John Palatella - Boston Review "An important voice in contemporary literature, a signal inheritor of an American poetic tradition. Like Dickinson, her Massachusetts muse, Howe turns the English of a self steeped in books such that every word, as in Scripture, glows with an almost moral quality." -- Artforum
