“Prison Sentences” is a pandemic prose poem consisting of lines, words, and sentences cut from Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit.
Susan Howe’s recent poetry collection is Concordance. An early critical study, My Emily Dickinson (1985), was re-issued in 2007 by New Directions with an introduction by Eliot Weinberger. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives, a prose meditation on her research in various rare book collections, including the Jonathan Edwards and Gertrude Stein manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, was published in 2014.