Stray: A Graphic Tone

Release Date:03/22/2019;Notes:STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE features the poems of American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991 - 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.";Track List:1. Extract from a Letter;2. Hope Atherton's Wanderings;3. Loving Friends and Kindred;4. Scattering As Behavior Toward Risk;5. Abide;6. Little Sir Echo;7. An Except from the Foreword to Debths;8. Intro;9. Dogon Eclipse;10. Song of the Andoumboulou: 1;11. Song of the Andoumboulou: 50;12. An Excerpt from Lone Coast Anacrusis;13. Parlay Cheval Ou