The Europe of Trusts contains three brilliant, long-unavailable books which Susan Howe first published in the early 1980 The Liberties, Pythagorean Silence, and Defenestration of Prague . These are the landmark books––following her volumes from the previous decade ( Hinge Picture, Chanting at the Crystal Sea, Cabbage Gardens, and Secret History of the Dividing Line )––which established Howe as “one of America’s foremost experimental writers” ( Publishers Weekly ). “Her work,” as Geoffrey O’Brien put it, “is a voyage of reconnaissance in language, a sounding out of ancient hiding places, and it is a voyage full of risk. ’Words are the only clues we have,’ she has said. ‘What if they fail us?’”
