Frolic architecture
By: Susan Howe, James Welling
Contributors: Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder; Ewing, Brad, printer; Welling, James, artist; Grenfell Press
Publisher: Grenfell Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Poetry; Artistic Photography; Abstract Photography
Notes: "Twenty-six copies published by the Grenfell Press 2010"--Colophon.

"Comprises forty-eight collage poems by Susan Howe printed letterpress on Somerset paper at the Grenfell Press by Brad Ewing, and ten photograms printed in James Welling's studio. The book was bound by Claudia Cohen using handmade Izumo Mitsumata-shi and Cave papers"--Publisher's description. "The ten photograms that accompany Howe's poems were created with acrylic paint and mylar"--Artist's website, retrieved Nov. 24, 2010.

The poems are constructed from fragments of printed text. They were "inspired by Susan Howe's experience of viewing various manuscripts, sermon notebooks, books, and pamphlets of the eighteenth century American Calvinist theologian Jonathan Edwards in the vast collection of Edwards family papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Especially by the folder in Box 24 titled 'Wetmore, Hannah Edwards, 1713-1773, Diary, 1736-39, copy in the hand of Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey, with commentary/n.d.' Using multi-purpose copy paper, scissors, 'invisible' scotch tape, and a canon copier pc170 she collaged fragments of this 'private writing' with a mix of sources from other conductors and revealers in the thick of things--before"--Publisher's description.