SOURCE: Howard, W. Scott. “Teaching How/e?: not per se.” Denver Quarterly 35, no. 2 (summer 2000): 81-93.

In the following essay, Howard maintains that Pierce-Arrow “reveals as much-perhaps more-about Susan Howe's poetics as about the life and work of the book's quasi-biographical subject.”

I will print you a syllabus Continuity probability even the predictability of drift 

—Susan Howe

The earliest occupation of man is poetizing, is Feeling and delighting in feeling. 

—C. S. Peirce

When our discussions in the contemporary literary theory course turned (as they often did) to the topic of canon formation and the status of experimental texts, Greg Goekjian was fond of saying: “as critics, we have one of two choices to make: we can write about non-canonical texts in a non-canonical fashion and risk alienating our audience, or we can celebrate innovative writing in a canonical manner, making familiar the strange, and perhaps gain new readers...