SOURCE: Ma, Ming-Qian. “Articulating the Inarticulate: Singularities and the Counter-method in Susan Howe.” Contemporary Literature 36, no. 3 (fall 1995): 477-89.

In the following essay, Ma contends that Howe's poetry is influenced by the logician Michel Serres' analysis of knowledge acquisition and discusses the way that Howe has developed meaning in her work.

Outside the central disciplines of Economy, Anthropology, and Historiography is a gap in causal sequence. A knowing excluded from knowing.

—Susan Howe, “The Difficulties Interview”

A task of poetry is to make audible (tangible but not necessarily graspable) those dimensions of the real that cannot be heard as much as to imagine new reals that have never before existed.

—Charles Bernstein, A Poetics

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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