CONTENTS

I. abu ghraib arias

  1. The Blues of Lane McCotter
  2. (echo /ex/): “In the name of God…”
  3. Searching the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure)
  4. (echo /ex/): “In the beginning…”
  5. The Blues of Javal Davis
  6. (echo /ex/): “next day…”
  7. Public Address/Ghost Soldiers
  8. (echo /ex/): “his name is G…”
  9. The Blues of Charles Graner
  10. (echo /ex/): “On the third day…”
  11. Handling the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure)
  12. (echo /ex/): “First the man…”
  13. Document Exploitation (Standard Operating Procedure)
  14. (echo /ex/): “Now these are the generations…”
  15. The Blues of Lynddie England
  16. (echo /ex/): “me…”
  17. The Blues of Ken Davis
  18. (echo /ex/): “Now I am what I saw…”
  19. MUSLIM BURIAL (Standard Operating Procedure)
  20. (echo /ex/): “And it came to pass…”
  21. The Blues of Joe Darby
  22. (echo /ex/)

II. first recitative

  1. Woman Mourning Son
  2. Recipe from the Abbasid
  3. Home Sweet Home
  4. The Iraqi Curator’s PowerPoint
  5. Black Site (Exhibit Q)
  6. Asymmetries
  7. Salaam Epigrams
  8. War Stories

III. hung lyres

  1. “The new theory: not to praise too much…”
  2. “When the bombs fell, she could barely raise…”
  3. “you mute you without openings…”
  4. “Is the ear…”
  5. “in the cell of else…”
  6. “this is the air we script to lips…”
  7. “I had no names to blazon their tender…”
  8. “She asks, is that man crying…”
  9. “What does it mean, I say.”

IV. second recitative

  1. Breathing Together
  2. Testimony (after Daniel Heyman)
  3. When I Was a Child, I Lived as a Child, I Said to My Dad
  4. Black Site (Exhibit I)
  5. Love Potion #42
  6. Saddam’s Fingerprints
  7. Etruscan Cista Handle
  8. Black Site (Exhibit M)
  9. A Toast (for Nawal Nasrallah)
  10. Cell/(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices)

V. homefront/removes

  1. “I hear it, at times, even in the wind.”
  2. “was taken was rapidly…”
  3. “What consequence is a body.”
  4. “tried hanging myself…”
  5. “I was planning my lesson on imagery…”
  6. “taken to outside court…”
  7. “In the wake of.”
  8. “I suspended upside…”
  9. “You look at me / looking at you.”
  10. “so I could pass the time… ”
  11. “As if, somehow, I were responsible.”
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  13. “On the flight overseas…”
  14. “I did not know my…”