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These Sounds Fall Into My Mind

2020; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.13110/framework.61.1.0102

1559-7989

Fowler,

Contemporary Literature and Criticism

These Sounds Fall Into My Mind Eve Fowler (bio) for willappropriationand remake and homagethese sounds fall into my mindmath readingexplain the pieceexplain why i would not want to write a book These Sounds Fall Into My Mind was written, largely, on January 1, 2018. The week before, my friend Hayden Dunham and I were talking, and she said, "You should write a book." I told her that I liked reading books but I probably wouldn't be able to write one. I'm in awe of the writers I love because what they do seems so impossible. But on January 1, I decided to write something. After a few short paragraphs I was stuck, so I used sentences or fragments of [End Page 102] sentences I had written down in notebooks, things I had collected for about a year, things I hadn't planned on using in my own work. The texts came from T. S. Elliot, Frank O'Hara, Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens, Lydia Davis, Oscar Wilde, the Bucketheads, and others. I wrote this in reaction to a recent breakup and began to weave parts of appropriated sentences together with my own. A year later I decided to make the piece a visual work and give it a voice. I recorded 14 people reading the text and eventually landed on my friend, the artist Math Bass. I wanted a kind of genderless voice and I wanted a reading that wasn't emotional. I thought reading the text on blue fields could bring parts of the text to mind or to life—the sky, the sea. You should write a book. Not a book about art. No one wants to read a book about art.Write about the coffee getting cold or … some dull fact that's not dull. Or pearls that were his eyes and how we drank coffee and talked for an hour. (1)I won't write about a heap of broken images, your shadow rising to meet you (2)or that at the violet hours winds fan the purple sky. (3)I can't or won't write about heaps of broken images (4) or fanning the purple sky. (5)I won't write about the sun, one black one red. (6)I won't write about wholly body, fluttering its empty sleeves or that she sang beyondthe genius of the sea. (6A)I won't write about death by water or what the thunder (7) said or a shape with alion body and the head of a man. (8)Instead I'll state the obvious and sit and stare out the window at mountains. Ormore likely at the computer. The computer will darken my mind while I sit andthink of the puzzle of you and our relationship. How we fit together or don't, intwo separate places. The coffee is cold. The table is bare. (9) I won't write that the lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly. (10) I won't say I am this, I am that. (11)Or that for a long time, I went to bed early. (12)I won't write about the black cave of time. (13)I won't write about nodding by the fire. (14) [End Page 103] These sounds fall into my mind. (15) 1. TS Elliot 2. TSE 3. TSE, Frank O'Hara 4. TSE 5. Frank O'Hara 6. Frank O'Hara 6A. Wallace Stevens 7. TSE 8. Yeats 9. Dashiell Manley 10. Virginia Woolf 11. Lydia Davis 12. Proust 13. Oscar Wilde 14. Yeats 15. The Bucketheads Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Eve Fowler, These Sounds Fall Into My Mind (2019), Video and sound, 1:49 min. Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán. [End Page 104] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Eve Fowler, These Sounds Fall Into My Mind (2019), Video and sound, 1:49 min. Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Eve Fowler, These Sounds Fall Into My Mind (2019), Video and sound, 1:49...