{"product_id":"pierce-arrow","title":"Pierce-Arrow","description":"\u003cem\u003ePierce-Arrow, \u003c\/em\u003e 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, melancholy sides of the \u003cem\u003efin-de-siecle\u003c\/em\u003e Anglo-American intelligentsia. George Meredith and his wife Mary Ellen, Swinburne and his companion Theodore Watts-Dunton, are among those who also find a place in the three long poem-sequences that comprise the book. Howe's historical linkings, resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war, create a compelling canvas of associations. \"It's the blanks and gaps,\" she says, \"that to me actually represent what poetry is--the connections between seemingly unconnected things--as if there is a place and might be a map to thought, when we know there is not.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833682178253,"sku":"9780811214100","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_9ba78759-3409-464f-99fa-eed627ed2c3e.jpg?v=1790892794","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/pierce-arrow","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}