StringTown Press Books
Weimar X 2
Images and Poems
By Lucien Swerdloff & Karin Temple
Price: $10.00
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Copyright © 2002
Weimer X 2 is a
collaboration between Karin Temple, a native of Germany, and Lucien Swerdloff, a Jewish
New Yorker. They explore the dichotomies of word and image, male and female, English and
German, and ultimately, of civilization and barbarism. The book is a collection of
photos of doors in Weimar overlayed with images of faces, art work, even mathmatical
equations then paired with Temple's poems. The poems and images together are startling,
complex and ultimately beautiful in their humanness and grace. "Weimar is a city of
opposites, like the human condition...like the universe," the authors write in the
prologue. By its very nature, Weimar X 2 suggests the
indestructibility of art even in the worst of times.
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