Pierce-Arrow

by Susan Howe and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Pierce-Arrow, Susan Howe's newest book of poems, takes as its point of departure the figure of Charles S. Peirce, the allusive nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of pragmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishment yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing. Through Peirce and his wife Juliette, a lady of shadowy antecedents, Howe creates an intriguing nexus that explores the darker,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214109
• ISBN13: 9780811214100
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"