Spontaneous particulars
the telepathy of archives
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Author
Publication
2014 - Christine Burgin, New Directions, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
19,750 words, Guess
Page Count
79 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27238177M
- ISBN-139780811223751
- ISBN-100811223752
- OCLC Control Number870098344
- Library of Congress Control Number2014008790
Classifications
- DDC027.001
- LCCCD947 .H69 2014
Description
Great American writers -- William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James --in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced here in the beautiful facsimiles)--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. The archived materials create links, discoveries, chance encounters, the visual and the 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 the real archives, and Spontaneous Particulars "is a collaged swan song to the old ways."
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