Acquisition: an index is an excerpt from a book-length essay, Reservoir, which tells the story of Arthur Lee and Lillian Mae Gibson, two people displaced by the building and arbitration of Milford Lake in Kansas . Piecing narrative together from newspaper articles, an archaeological report and a box of documents belonging to the Gibsons, Acquisition: an index examines the process of taking possession in both an archival and more general sense.
Excerpt:
They stood where Milford Lake would stand. A reserve to the point of bursting.
She stood where Milford Lake would stand a reserve to the point of bursting to the point of bursting a reserve which would stand where she stood.
He stood where Milford Lake would stand reserved to the point of bursting.
Acquisition: an index is an excerpt from a book-length essay, Reservoir, which tells the story of Arthur Lee and Lillian Mae Gibson, two people displaced by the building and arbitration of Milford Lake in Kansas . Piecing narrative together from newspaper articles, an archaeological report and a box of documents belonging to the Gibsons, Acquisition: an index examines the process of taking possession in both an archival and more general sense.
Excerpt:
They stood where Milford Lake would stand. A reserve to the point of bursting.
She stood where Milford Lake would stand a reserve to the point of bursting to the point of bursting a reserve which would stand where she stood.
He stood where Milford Lake would stand reserved to the point of bursting.