
Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
Susan Howe(Author)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published on 26. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-8112-2039-2 (ISBN)
Description
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.
An excerpt:
Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar
has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something
because I am a survivor in this ocean.
An excerpt:
Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar
has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something
because I am a survivor in this ocean.
Reviews / Votes
"One way of understanding Sorting Facts as it appears in this cultural moment - though surely different times and subsequent readings will fade certain colors and deepen others - is as a premonitory exegesis of this registration of the fact of Marker's death. And so to encounter the essay now is to see in it a memory of the future: a premonition of an annotation." -- Rebecca Ariel Porte - The Los Angeles Review of BooksMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
106 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-2039-2 (9780811220392)
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Person
Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, That This, The Midnight, My Emily Dickinson, The Quarry, and The Birthmark.