Available at
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvnjbh2p.
This book contains essays on poets, their works, and their collections. Linda Anderson, Mark Byers, and Ahren Walker in their introduction tell how they have:
“taken our preface – and indeed a large part of our inspiration – from Susan Howe’s book Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives, where she describes her elusive, often rhapsodic, encounters with literary archives, those ‘deposits of a future yet to come’ that are ‘gathered and guarded in the domain of research libraries and special collections’.¹ The future horizon is significant for Howe: objects and texts surprise her in ways which cannot be determined by some prior estimate of their meaning or value.”
Essays touch on the work of T.S. Eliot, Derek Mahon, Ezra Ound, Mina Loy, Louis MacNeice, John Updike, Sylvia Plath, Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang, Bhanu Kapil, poetry book publisher Bloodaxe Books, Carolyn Forché, and others.
Keeping (and Telling) the Past 