Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
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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