Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives - Paperback
by Susan Howe
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811229777ISBN-10:811229777UPC:9780811229777Book Category:Poetry, ArtBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:African American & Black, EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCZS7FWMEJ
Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James--all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here)--are the presiding spirits of Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives. Also woven into Susan Howe's long essay are beautiful photographs of embroideries and textiles from anonymous craftspeople. All the archived materials are links, discoveries, chance encounters, the visual and acoustic shocks of rooting around amid physical archives. These are the telepathies the bibliomaniacal poet relishes. Rummaging in the archives she finds "a deposit of a future yet to come, gathered and guarded...a literal and mythical sense of life hereafter--you permit yourself liberties--in the first place--happiness." Digital scholarship may offer much for scholars, but Susan Howe loves the materiality of research in real archives and Spontaneous Particulars "is a collaged swan song to the old ways."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811229777ISBN-10:811229777UPC:9780811229777Book Category:Poetry, ArtBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:African American & Black, EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCZS7FWMEJ
Howe, Susan: - Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, ThatThis, TheMidnight, MyEmilyDickinson, TheQuarry, and TheBirthmark.
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