A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The
Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new Vagrancy in
the Park (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as The
Disappearance Approach, Personal Narrative, Sorting Facts, Frame
Structures, and Where Should the Commander Be, and ending with her
seminal early criticism, The End of Art. The essays of The Quarry map
the intellectual territory of one of America's most important and vital
avant-garde poets.