Europe of Trusts: Poetry

The Europe of Trustscontains three brilliant, long-unavailable books which Susan Howe first published in the early 1980s:The Liberties,Pythagorean Silence, andDefenestration of Prague. These are the landmark books--following her volumes from the previous decade (Hinge Picture,Chanting at the Crystal Sea,Cabbage Gardens, andSecret History of the Dividing Line)--which established Howe as "one of America's foremost experimental writers" (Publishers Weekly). "Her work," as Geoffrey O'Brien put it, "is a voyage of reconnaissance in language, a sounding out of ancient hiding places, and it is a voyage full of risk. 'Words are the only clues we have,' she has said. 'What if they fail us?'"