New Releases by Richard Howard

"Richard Howard''s first new book of poems in five years features two long narrative poems plus an extraordinary group of dramatic meditations on a fascinating variety of subjects: Proust searching for his novel''s title; Rodin evading the perverse importunities of his admirers; Loie Fuller trying to wheedle radium from Madame Curie; Fuseli, Wordsworth and Kafka obliquely evoked; Virginia Woolf plotting a novel about Byron--while other poems are lyric instances or evidences of less notorious voices."-- Back cover.

Published to accompany exhibition 28 July - 23 October 1988, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

When this book was first published in 1969, Richard Howard set himself the overwhelming task of a critical examination in detail of forty-one American poets as widely different as James Merrill and Gary Snyder, some celebrated and some obscure, who had at that time published at least two volumes of work establishing a characteristic identity. He thought of these poets as representing and dramatizing the achievement of American poetry since 1950, following the "established" achievement of Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Jarrell, Lowell, Roethke and Wilbur. In this new and enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, he has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing with new work by the poets originally examined but leaving the original text unchanged.

Henry Farber was born 1826 in Germany and died in 1913 in St. Anthony, Iowa.

This volume closely follows Guillaume Apollinaire's search for self-knowledge through eight poems of Alcools. The study analyzes the dramatic personae and metaphors found in these poems and broaches ideas of the changing nature of the self, fragmentation and reintegration, dispersion, montage and catharsis in the poet's work of 1913.

A collection of seventeen stories, poems, and excerpts from books about horses, by well-known authors over several centuries.

Drafts of poems both handwritten and in typescript for the volume, Welcome Eumenides (61 l.); miscellaneous fragments and drafts of poems (9 l., 4 fragments); correspondence (ca. 1970-1972) with Richard Howard who wrote the "Note" for Welcome Eumenides, editors and publishers (8 items).