Artforum, July 1st, 2003
THE MIDNIGHT BY SUSAN HOWE NEW YORK: NEW DIRECTIONS. 224 PAGES. $20. In The Midnight, poet Susan Howe portrays herself as "an insomniac who goes to bed in a closet" and whose sleepless nights are spent copying out passages from antiquarian books and revisiting childhood memories. The resulting jumble of prose, poetry, and photographs, deceptively documentary, abandons daytime logic to enter a dreamlike world in which the act of associating runs free. The book's central metaphor is bed hangings, those sensuous curtains that simultaneously reveal and obscure the figure within; Howe's genius i...
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