Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker

Susan Howe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:24th May '13

Should be back in stock very soon

Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker cover

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