Description
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.
Reviews
"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
Also By: Susan Howe 
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Paperback, 2023
Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
Paperback, 2020
Originally a cloth coedition with the Christine Burgin Gallery, this rapturous hymn to discoveries and archives is now a paperback
Concordance
Paperback, 2020
A new poetry book by Susan Howe is always an event
The Birth-mark: Essays
Paperback, 2017
Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.
Debths
E Book, 2017
Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize