Concordance / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, poetry ; Kiki Smith, art.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Smith, Kiki, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Artistic collaboration.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Kelsey Street Press, [2006]

Summary:

Poetry. Art. CONCORDANCE is a new collaborative work by three acclaimed contemporary artists: poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Kiki Smith, working with book artist, Anne McKeown. Inspired by Smith's image of a dandelion, whose floating silks she compares to reading, the poem traces agreements and embeddings of human and animal bodies, ideas, dreams and emotion in a concordance of parallel and contingent contexts. "Then it's possible to undo misunderstanding from inside by tracing the flight or thread of empty space running through things." Then what if, in that bond, "images were Eros as words?" In Smith's etchings, reading, as Eros, is drawn as seeds, feathers, star-like explosions, pods, wide-eyed, unblinking owls. "Animals...open their eyes, and a mirror forms on the ground." The effects of the verbal images and gray-blue inked drawings are stunning and other-worldly.

Contents:

Concordance

Red quiet.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947- Concordance.

ISBN:

0932716679

9780932716675

OCLC:

64065835

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berssenbrugge.php

http://www.frontporchjournal.com/issue30_review_concor.asp

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/concordance-our-conversation-wing

http://bombmagazine.org/article/2835/