"Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals,"
Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body
of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives.
"Since," a semi-autobiographical prose-poem, opens the collection:
concerned with first and last things, meditating on the particular
and peculiar affinities between law and poetry, it ranges from the
Permian time of Pangea through Rembrandt and Dickinson to the dire
present. "Concordance," a collage poem originally published as a
Grenfell Press limited edition, springs from slivers of poetry and
marginalia, cut from old concordances and facsimile editions of
Milton, Swift, Herbert, Browning, Dickinson, Coleridge, and Yeats,
as well as from various field guides to birds, rocks, and trees:
the collages' "rotating prisms" form the heart of the book. The
final poem, "Space Permitting," is collaged from drafts and notes
Thoreau sent to Emerson and Margaret Fuller's friends and family in
Concord while on a mission to recover her remains from the
shipwreck on Fire Island. The fierce ethic of salvage in these
three very different pieces expresses the vitalism in words,
sounds, syllables, the telepathic spirit of all things singing into
air.
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