This book is about Susan Howe's 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 place of being, of what Gilles Deleuze and FZlix
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 self-presencing. 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 Howe's 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.
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