Article: Keeping time: Bennett Simpson on David Grubbs and Susan Howe.(SOUND)(Souls of the Labadie Tract )(Sound recording review)

IN MY OWN TAKE on the Grand Tour, I spent the summer sunburned in Los Angeles, reading poetry. The circulation of names and artworks and overpoliced critical shibboleths (see Texte zur Kunst's recent "Short Guide" for choice examples) that elsewhere engulfed art in a fog of values, cynical or otherwise, fell gracefully away from the literary will-o'-the-wisps I followed for relief. Brightest among these was Souls of the Labadie Tract (Blue Chopsticks, 2007), the second collaboration, after Thiefth, 2005, between musician David Grubbs and poet Susan Howe. For a certain audience, this recording is worthy news. Howe, who recently turned seventy, is an important voice in ...






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