Let's make this birthday one to remember.

87 years old (Born on June 10, 1937)

Happy Birthday to the incomparable Susan Howe! May your celebration be as delightfully fragmented and playfully postmodern as *Frolic Architecture.* Your poetic twists always leave us joyously stranded in labyrinths of language, searching for meanings that weren't there until you stealthily placed them between syllables.

From unraveling Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic genius in *My Emily Dickinson*, to stirring literary consciousness awake with your brilliant analysis in *The Birth-Mark,* you've kept literature lively (and readers pleasantly baffled). Here's wishing another year filled with intriguing juxtapositions, playful obscurities, and many moments worthy of poetry—both written and lived. Happy birthday from all admirers lost happily within your wilder textual wilderness!