On Public Lives/Private Lives
Pausing Outside a House Santiago, Chile 2005Here, where a ruin longsto be a house, and a houseto be left to ruin. Where men blindfolded studentsand pushed them downthe basement stairs. The… More
Chiori Miyagawa on Public Lives/Private Lives
(Circa 1956, Nagano, Postwar Japan)There was something suspicious about the death of Yokochi City’s mayor’s daughter. It was a nagging doubt that began when Kazuo saw the obituary in… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
I believe that one of the most problematic and fascinating conflicts of our time is the relationship between our intimate beliefs and our public life.How do our convictions give… More
On Public Lives/Private Lives
They built a prison whose outer boundary was surrounded by a wire fence where some of the most beautiful poems of the nation’s leading poets had been written, by… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
Surface Tension Scarified now but how? When we once heardparades from windows, swayed in artificiallyluminescent reeds under the Brooklyn Bridge,filled soaked corn husks with masa dough,glimpsed mouse-deer scamper on wish-thinlegs,… More
On Public Lives/Private Lives
Without a sound she sight-reads The song of the letter Sings each sentence on the breath Of the one who wrote it More
On Public Lives/Private Lives
Would you choose to bury the organs with the child? And he retreats to his room and closes the door. Here, birds in the zocalo whiz and tweet like children’s toys And… More