Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-

Publication

[Berkeley] : Kelsey St. Press, 2006.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Kiki, 1954-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

[43] p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

Uniform Title

Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Subject

• Poetry
• Artistic collaboration

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "'Concordance' is a limited edition of two thousand copies"--Colophon.
• "In its original form the work was produced in collaboration with master papermaker Anne McKeown as a limited edition accordion book and published by the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper"--Colophon.
• "Concordance" printed on tan paper, "Red quiet" on semi-transparent red paper.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Concordance -- Red quiet.

ISBN

• 0932716679 (alk. paper)
• 9780932716675

LCCN

^^2006004176

OCLC

• 64065835
• SCSB-12355697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library