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62 pages pbk $15
The verse in Histologies is predicated on a false etymology linking historia (meaning ‘history’) with histology (the science of tissues) via histos, which means both ‘tissue’ and ‘web.’ Histologies explores the ancient and intimate relationship between poetry and embodiment, between passion and disaffection; it inquires into the ways in which the past finds its place in the human body, in which history is lodged in histos.
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translated by Michael Tweed
106 pages pbk $18
“There is, lying in the stuff of which we are made, a memory as old as the world, a memory whose dream has created the Earth and all that thrives upon it, a memory which listens to itself and pursues itself in the silence of things. If the human gaze can penetrate the silence of things beyond its own perceptions, if the human gaze can conceive this silence to the point of expressing it in speech, it is because it can turn and look at the source of all sight...”
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