The guest sits on his brown mare with his back to us so we look through his eyes at the blind windows and rank sedges and the coming on of twilight and season.

Published on the occasion of Robert Glück’s exhibition, I’d Like to Tell Time What to Do, at Treize, Paris, in January 2024, this chapbook proposes ten “illustrations” for Poe’s famous novella. Glück proceeds to freeze-frame specific sentences and moments in Usher, zooming on details, letting sounds be heard, throwing the reader into a new scene of ideas and sensations. Each page is framed by a b&w photograph by Chris Komater: a close-up of a body, of flesh, that seems to be coming from the original House of Usher, “of the feeling that Poe creates of oppressive confinement … The edges of the pages have to be touched by fingers to turn each page, hands touching sensitive and unknown areas of skin, recalling Roderick’s sensual hypersensitivity” (Komater). -Publisher