Stray: a Graphic Tone

Stray: a Graphic Tone

Shannon Ebner • Roma Publications

ISBN not provided · 2019

Dimensions: 31 × 31 cm

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1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991 until 2018, the work brought together here examines the two writer's lifelong preoccupation with subjects adrift in narratives of dispossession both real and imagined. Liner notes contain excerpts of original interviews as well as reproductions of the poets' published materials. According to Ebner, " STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE is the full-length version of what I started in 2016 when I began seeking exchanges with these two poets. I was drawn to their works for their experiments with poetic form - for their politics of poetic form, to be exact - for their poems' stray figures and stray errant marks." It was recorded at various locales between 1991 and 2018. The album was edited and produced by Shannon Ebner and mastered and engineered by Joseph Stewart. Design: Julia Born and Shannon Ebner. Susan Howe: "Sound is everything in poetry. It's measure; the measure is everything. Even though I have gone on about silence. This is the mystery. I don't have a set measure, but I feel that something about the way I place words on paper amounts to a kind of dictation I'm receiving from somewhere. Every mark on paper is an acoustic mark. Sound is also, obviously, sight. It's that instant flash of recognition that echoes and re-echoes. A work of art if it works teaches us we haven't seen what we suddenly see." Nathaniel Mackey: "Graphite is soft carbon. Were it hard enough to withstand contact and remain totally self-contained, it would not be useful for writing. Graphite gives up some of itself upon contact with paper. Graphite suffers a loss that leaves a mark. So, the music I'm talking about, the writing I'm talking about, is talking about loss that leaves a mark. And not just talking about it; it is the mark that's left."

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