Chapters (73)
- Cover
- Note to the Reader
- Illumination of the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
- I. abu ghraib arias
- The Blues of Lane McCotter
- (echo /ex/): “In the name of God…”
- Searching the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure)
- (echo /ex/): “In the beginning…”
- The Blues of Javal Davis
- (echo /ex/): “next day…”
- Public Address/Ghost Soldiers
- (echo /ex/): “his name is G…”
- The Blues of Charles Graner
- (echo /ex/): “On the third day…”
- Handling the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure)
- (echo /ex/): “First the man…”
- Document Exploitation (Standard Operating Procedure)
- (echo /ex/): “Now these are the generations…”
- The Blues of Lynddie England
- (echo /ex/): “me…”
- The Blues of Ken Davis
- (echo /ex/): “Now I am what I saw…”
- MUSLIM BURIAL (Standard Operating Procedure)
- (echo /ex/): “And it came to pass…”
- The Blues of Joe Darby
- (echo /ex/)
- II. first recitative
- Woman Mourning Son
- Recipe from the Abbasid
- Home Sweet Home
- The Iraqi Curator’s PowerPoint
- Black Site (Exhibit Q)
- Asymmetries
- Salaam Epigrams
- War Stories
- III. hung lyres
- “The new theory: not to praise too much…”
- “When the bombs fell, she could barely raise…”
- “you mute you without openings…”
- “Is the ear…”
- “in the cell of else…”
- “this is the air we script to lips…”
- “I had no names to blazon their tender…”
- “She asks, is that man crying…”
- “What does it mean, I say.”
- IV. second recitative
- Breathing Together
- Testimony (after Daniel Heyman)
- When I Was a Child, I Lived as a Child, I Said to My Dad
- Black Site (Exhibit I)
- Love Potion #42
- Saddam’s Fingerprints
- Etruscan Cista Handle
- Black Site (Exhibit M)
- A Toast (for Nawal Nasrallah)
- Cell/(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices)
- V. homefront/removes
- “I hear it, at times, even in the wind.”
- “was taken was rapidly…”
- “What consequence is a body.”
- “tried hanging myself…”
- “I was planning my lesson on imagery…”
- “taken to outside court…”
- “In the wake of.”
- “I suspended upside…”
- “You look at me / looking at you.”
- “so I could pass the time… ”
- “As if, somehow, I were responsible.”
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- “On the flight overseas…”
- “I did not know my…”
- Compline
- Notes
Panic, Laura McCullough
Milk Dress, Nicole Cooley
Parable of Hide and Seek, Chad Sweeney
Shahid Reads His Own Palm, Reginald Dwayne Betts
How to Catch a Falling Knife, Daniel Johnson
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