M. Leary

Heartbeat Detector (Klotz, 2008)

It resembles the pithy call and response of Hiroshima, mon amour, but can only script Simon’s solitary, confused, anguished voice. He has arrived at the end of the landslide, immobilized. His recitation of “stucke, stucke” in these final moments of darkness calls to mind the use of the word to refer to the corpses of Nazi victims in train, cars and camps.