Penitential Cries - Susan Howe Paul Wilson peace treaties that span parallel

peace treaties that span parallel universes

sampling the city or capturing the atmosphere of archaeological sites

as well as her personal history in activism

her work is born from an accumulation that constructs architectures of shapes and colors

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Penitential Cries - Susan Howe Paul Wilson peace treaties that span parallelWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect, what can you do in all this world, so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howes new book opens with the arresting long prose poem Penitential Cries, followed by a group of word collages Sterling Park in the Dark, The Deserted Shelf, and finally a brief sparrow poem. Speaking of her new work written in the evening of life, Howe quotes Thomas Wyatt: My galley, chargd with forgetfulness,