Hell Figures Aquarium Works as well as a selection

as well as a selection of posthumously published verse

Ida Gerhardt

Terrance Hayes

an anthem of desire against erasure

Between words

Hell Figures Aquarium Works as well as a selectionE. Tracy Grinnell Hell Figures ventures into the fragmented mythical and literary histories of Helen of Troy, Sappho, Cassandra, Antigone, and others by way of our current condition of perpetual war, violence, and environmental destruction. Grinnell employs the transliteration of musical forms, such as the fugue and humoresque, and homophonic translation as methods of giving form and voice to obscured, inaudible, illegible, unintelligible, and omitted