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SPD says-"Takes as a 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. 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 connection between seemingly unconnected things -- as if there is a place and might be a map of thought, when we know there is not." |
