The Nonconformist's MemorialSusan Howe The Nonconformists Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howes reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. Howe is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into