an anthem of desire against erasure
"Lewis Warsh
the way it defines and limits our experience
Known as a remarkable classicist
and pregnant with possibility for anyone who cares to absorb it
Hell Figures Aquarium Works an anthem of desire againstE. Tracy Grinnell Hell Figures ventures into the fragmented mythical and literary histories of Helen of Troy, Sappho, Cassandra, Antigone, and others by way of our current condition of perpetual war, violence, and environmental destruction. Grinnell employs the transliteration of musical forms, such as the fugue and humoresque, and homophonic translation as methods of giving form and voice to obscured, inaudible, illegible, unintelligible, and omitted