16 posts tagged “poetics of annihilation”

The barbarism of war as 12-tone opera in the Germanic tradition, dehumanized soldiers eventually rape the heroine. The composer, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, referred to his work as a comedy; however, he went on to commit suicide in 1970.
Full description of the work is (of course) in The New York Times.

This sounds like a haunting collection of photographs to explore, of stories to consider. The abandoned lives of those committed who never re-emerged from asylums. The Lives They Left Behind : Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic. By Darby Penney and Dr. Peter Stastny. Bellevue Literary Press. 205 pages. $25.
on current, with commentary
A nonlinear map of the echoes of loss still ringing through the greater Pittsburgh area, via images of Braddock and stories I've collected since I moved here in 2002.


