Susan Howe’s Caesurae

Readings of Susan Howe’s visual poetry tend to focus on how she uses the space page act language, through an opposition, then, between and textual. This paper argues that works are specified precisely by way they obscure line what is not linguistic. The looks into ways in which poems, specifically her recent collection Debths, depend work with unit, use abuse our sense poems appear typographic lines. Three examples from Debths look at problems raised various Howe scissors line, arguing a place where something happens frame for caesura, silence can take place—as seen book’s title. Syntax its caesuring then “make” as intimating voice, exploring interstices language body.