Concordance
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, poetry ; Kiki Smith, art.
Contributors: Smith, Kiki, 1954-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kelsey St. Press; Kelsey Street Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780932716675
Description: 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.