Susan Wheeler
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Record Palace
Record Palace is an astonishment. Susan Wheeler's deft touch and flawless ear have produced an irresistable work, both fresh and sage. - Toni Morrison Poetry
Ledger
"Susan Wheeler's narrative glamour finds occasions in unlikely places: hardware stores, Herodotus, Hollywood Squares, Flemish paintings, green stamps, and echoes of archaic and cyber speech. What at first seems cacophonous comes in the end to seem invested with a mournful dignity: that of 'the jangling discourse of our nation.' Ledger is a treasure map for those willing to understand the journey." - John Ashbery Source Codes
A "project" book of poetry, interspersing Susan Wheeler's informal collages with poems Smokes
Susan Wheeler's second collection of poetry, with an afterword by U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass. |
Source CodesThe "Key" - Table of Contents Source Codes One. Cf. Romanticism - present re: “self.” Two. Rite Two: confession. Three. Cinquains, class assignment, October 1999. Four. Girl, New York Times Sunday Magazine, editorial spread, 2000. Five. Robert Frost, “Provide, Provide.” Six. Singer, unknown. Seven. Odium sine litter is mors est. — Cicero. Eight. Girl, The Economist. The Hague: the House in the Wood - the hall. Nine. Text: Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Ten. Three figures, The Economist. Eleven. John Kelly as Joni Mitchell, Westbeth Theater, 1996. Twelve. Character study, Record Palace, Wheeler. Thirteen. American advertising design, c. 1963-68. Grace Louise Skeen, instructor, and Ray Barton Wheeler, student, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), 1947-53. Fourteen. Figure, The Economist. Fifteen. Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick; King Lear and Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard; L’Argent by Robert Bresson; Shadows and Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes; The Pumpkin Eater by Jack Clayton; California Split by Robert Altman. Sixteen. Bois de Boulogne, Parc de Bagatelle, Edition artistique, C.M., Paris. Seventeen. “Benny the Beaver,” 78-rpm children’s recording, c. 1950-60. Eighteen. Nature. Nineteen. Fragment, Brodheim, Remarkable Women. Twenty. Queen Latifah. Twenty-one. Colin Noncarrow by Paul Sacher Stiftung. Twenty-two. “Millennium” chain poem, editors of Verse magazine, 1999. Twenty-three. Unknown. Twenty-four. United flight #862, San Francisco - New York. Twenty-five. Champion Spring - Geyser Park Twenty-six. Bill Viola, Hatsu Yume (First Dream), 1981. Twenty-seven. Still, Valley of the Dolls. Twenty-eight. “Guest + Host = Ghost,” collage, Marcel Duchamp. Twenty-nine. Lugano. Thirty. Stutter. Thirty-one. Wiesbaden, Königl, Hoftheater. Thirty-two. Audio tape recording, Eric O’Briant, c. 1984. Thirty-three. Becker’s Road, Steeldrucktone, Germany. Thirty-four. Memory. Thirty-five. Buffle Chigkpen Wingf — sign, restaurant window, New York City. Thirty-six. Journal article on “says himself —ing” usage, American Speech. Thirty-seven. Sown figure, The Economist. Thirty-eight. Cassius Marcellus Clay / Thirty-nine. Boy Scouts, The Economist. Forty. After portrait studies by Eric Fischl. Forty-one. Villa Borghese. Forty-two. Roger Cohen, The New York Times, July 9, 1998: “LAGOS, Nigeria, July 8 — Nigeria’s military ruler tried to calm an angry nation tonight, after the sudden death of the opposition leader, Moshood K.O. Abiola, by agreeing to let outside experts to take part in the autopsy.” Daniel Day Lewis, actor, Last of the Mohicans and In the Name of the Father. Quincy, NBC series 1976-83. Columbo, NBC series 1989-90. Forty-three. The Hague: the House in the Wood - the white dining room. |
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