Penitential Cries by Susan Howe ImogenCassels Mira Mattar

Mira Mattar

'I am a memory eater

but close inspection reveals them to be subtle meditations on the nature of visual representation

SLUTS: Anthology presents an inspiringly diverse collection of writing – fiction and non-fiction

Rebecca Tamás

Penitential Cries by Susan Howe ImogenCassels Mira MattarWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howes new book opens with the arresting long prose poem Penitential Cries, followed by a group of word collages Sterling Park in the Dark, The Deserted Shelf, and finally a brief sparrow poem. Speaking of her new work written in the evening of life, Howe quotes Thomas Wyatt: My galley, chargd with forgetfulness,