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The Decisive
/ The Unresolved
If Bodies Have Voices If Bodies Have
Voices
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| "These poems and photos
are an accounting, a gathering of evidence, but for what case, in whose
court, I have neither the necessary insight nor resolute will to say.
Examining the evidence one must refer to those seen and spoken of and to
the one who sees and speaks. Those who matter most in the court of
this accounting have not been invited to speak in their own right.
And though they are seen, where is the evidence of a world seen through
their eyes? There is a disquieting impasse at the heart of this project
I’ve engaged in. I can no longer proceed on these terms. The photos stand
by themselves, as do the poems. The words bear false witness, though
that was not their intent; the photos, an intrusion into lives I know little
of. For a time I hauled the city on my back, but unlike those depicted,
I can put it down."
Wayne Amtzis
- 2001----------------
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The Decisive
/ The Unresolved
If Bodies Have Voices If Bodies Have
Voices
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