Susan Howe’s works in The Non-Conformists Memorial really stretched the idea of the poetic form. With some sentences upside-down and overlapping, a lot of the poems took a much closer look. She seems to be playing into this idea that the meanings of poems often overlap and intertwine, and it is up to the audience to distinguish the meaning. While I did enjoy the very innovative format, it seemed a bit forced at times. Being a fan of Williams, I’m sure Howe was trying to break into this idea of new poetic forms and structures and experiment with the way words look. However, sometimes the way the poem looked took away from the meaning of the poem. It became so indistinguishable that I was more focused on how all these words were crossing over each other rather than what the words themselves were saying.
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