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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Susan Howe and David Grubbs<br>
Poetry Reading</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <b>& Musical
Performance</b><br>
Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 pm<br>
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<br>
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs perform
their collaborative work, “Souls of the Labadie Tract.” Based on
Howe’s poem of the same name, the performance features Howe’s
reading accompanied by Grubb’s musical performance. Bennett Simpson
described the collaborative work in <i>Artforum International</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<i>Souls of the Labadie Tract</i> is neither
traditional recitation nor music-with-words. But once the red herring of
categories is dispatched, the [piece] reveals a confrontation with history,
community, language, and sound that is truly harrowing. Pairing Howe’s
reading voice with Grubbs’s arrangements for synthesizer and khaen
(Laotian mouth organ), the work hinges on the former’s [long poem], a
sifting, shifting archaeology of a quietist sect known as the Labadists.
… <i> Souls of the Labadie Tract</i> is, first and foremost, a poem
about time and loss. … Poetry may be the truest form of history writing
if what one wants from history is an image of the present (Ezra Pound called
this “news that stays news”). And in Howe’s imagination, the
past becomes a very current stake. … Grubbs’s sonic architecture is
a striking accompaniment to the text. The rumbling disruptions and deep breath
drones that mount and fall around Howe’s speech present him in fine
electroacoustic form. Especially suited to the poem and its subject matter is
the combination of reeds and machines, which suggests the powerful open
textures of a church organ or calliope: an invocation to the collective
experience of mystery.” (<i>Artforum International</i> 46.2 (Oct 2007):
135).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Poet <b>Susan Howe</b> is the author of numerous books
of poems including: <i>Souls of the Labadie Tract</i>, <i>The Midnight,
Pierce-Arrow, </i>and <i>Singularities</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Musician <b>David Grubbs </b>has made ten solo
records, played in a number of groups (Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol,
Red Krayola, Wingdale Community Singers), and frequently collaborates with
writers and artists. He is an assistant professor of Radio and Sound Art at
Brooklyn College, CUNY, and director of Brooklyn College’s graduate
programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>More information and examples of work: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>David Grubbs on MySpace: <a
href="http://www.myspace.com/davidgrubbsbluechopsticks">http://www.myspace.com/davidgrubbsbluechopsticks</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Susan Howe, Academy of American Poets: <a
href="http://www.poets.org/showe/">http://www.poets.org/showe/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Poetry at Beinecke: <a
href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/performance-souls-of-the-labadie-tract/">http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/performance-souls-of-the-labadie-tract/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale
Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of
the announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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