Sand Opera by Metres, Philip -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Note to the Reader Contents 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.” <hover to see video> “On the flight overseas…” “I did not know my…”

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