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出版Alphabet of Wrongdoing, 2021-09-06
主題Poetry / GeneralReligion / General
ISBN05788869449780578886947
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=epdbzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In Alphabet of Wrongdoing, vocalist, composer, and cantor Daniela Gesundheit invokes ceremonial Jewish prayers and blessings encircling themes of reckoning, forgiveness, mortality, striving, and atonement, and transposes these sacred texts for secular audiences and secular spaces. This full-color libretto is a roadmap to follow in sequence while listening to the Alphabet of Wrongdoing album, or you can turn to any page, regarding each facet you encounter as a koan that serves to illuminate the more esoteric aspects of this work. This debut collection of poems and essays investigates communal gestures of forgiveness, and asks, Can we transmute a world's weight of unforgivable acts, an Alphabet of Wrongdoing? Excerpt from Alphabet of Wrongdoing Digital Libretto:We have un-vowed, we have pounded our hearts open, we have prostrated ourselves on forest floors, pine needles pressing into our bellies, and we have fissured our hardened shells all to see if there is some shining, iridescent yolk of incorruptibility inside of us. From that place, where the shards of who we once were somehow fertilize the soil around us, a date palm begins to grow in rapid time-lapse. The summation of brokenness feeds the date palm, moves up its proud, upright trunk as sap, moves into its branches, first as blossoms and then as sweet endless fruit. Just glimpsing the palm sway we feel more whole, more alive: "fresh and full of sap." This perpetual transmutation is justice.Artwork, typography, and layout by Brankica Harvey and Ken DeeganCover photograph by Dawn GarciaEdited by Kristen Bulger (English) and Dana Reginiano (Hebrew)Fonts Flecha and Grifo designed by Rui Abreu of R-TypographyBooklet photographs by Caitlin Woelfle-O'BrienThe images are stills from a video for All Our Departed, directed by Johnny Spence, choreographed by Erin Poole, featuring Erin Poole, Daniela Gesundheit and Eric Cheng"Daniela - whose words and music I have long admired" . . . Maggie Nelson (Author of The Argonauts)