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Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
Susan Howe
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Description for Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
Paperback. Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
63
Condition
New
Series
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811220392
SKU
V9780811220392
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16
About Susan Howe
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.
Reviews for Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
"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: ... Read more