Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published:24th May '13
£8.99
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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.
"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 Books
ISBN: 9780811220392
Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 8mm
Weight: 107g
48 pages