Susan Howe

Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been contiguously associated following the Language poets, among new poetry movements. Her do its stuff is often classified as Postmodern because it expands usual notions of genre (fiction, essay, prose and poetry). Many of Howe's books are layered as soon as historical, mythical, and additional references, often presented in an other format. Her put it on contains lyrical echoes of sound, and nevertheless is not pinned next to by a consistent metrical pattern or a satisfactory poetic rhyme scheme.

Howe is the recipient of the 2017 Robert Frost Medal awarded by the Poetry Society of America, the recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, and a zealot of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.