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Susan Howe

Susan Howe is the author of several poetry collections, including Debths (New Directions, 2017), That This (New Directions, 2010), The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of Trusts (2002), Pierce-Arrow (1999), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 (1996), The Nonconformist’s Memorial (1993), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (1990), and Singularities (1990). She is also the author of two books of criticism: The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was named an “International Book of the Year” by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily Dickinson (New Directions, 1985). She has received two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 1996 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2011, Howe received Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. In 2017 she received the Robert Frost award for distinguished lifetime achievement in American poetry.