Judith Malina and her longtime companion-comrade Julian Beck founded the Living Theatre in New York City in 1947. In these poems Judith shares her anguish at injustices inflicted by bureaucratic authority; the rewards she found in love and collaboration with Julian; her difficulties in making some life-defining choices.
Table of Contents
Preface by Ira Cohen
Love & Politics
Dawn Riddles
In the World We Envision
Like a Warhorse
Pressing
Walking Around the Block Without Julian
Malaga: Six Sounds: Moto, Walkman, Bell, Muezzin, Bird, Helicopter
Pick up Each Glass
Women Crying
4 Sentences on Opinions
The Victory Parade
Five-Word Permutations on Light and Dark
Roles
Editing
Duncan and Duse at Viareggio
Time Running Out
From the Window
Remembering Dreams
Reading the Papers
Rock
Graceless After Meals
Sky Services
Learning Shame
Esther Dolgoff
Sam Dolgoff
Mel Most
Painting Flowers on the Sidewalk: Tompkins Square
View of the Other Side
Now I am Making Movies
Antisemitism and the Law
The Day Johnny Dodd Died
Contra Astrologia
Eating
Dance Teachers
Am Not Thereby Changed
Written in Stone: Washington Square
Breaking the Laws
Seafood with Poets
In the Brainpan
Green Awning/Black Flag
Hidden Under
Motherlove
On the Set
All Night the Radio
Heartlessness
Return Summons
Cieslak
Thoughts on the Oxymoron, Military Intellegence
Ever Since Your Death Death
Wang Weilin
Loon Howl
Korach
Two Bird Haikus/Not Haikus
Los Angeles in Wartime
War
Ancient Alliterations
Walking Along the Esedra
When Julian Walked Alone
Temporary and Final
Along the Inland Waterway
Berlin Changes, Sometimes After Brecht
Speaking with God
Study Plan
Branch – The Immolation of the Davidians
Fifty Words for Alvin Curran
Splendor
The Bridge: The Living Theatre at Mostar
“I am a Prisoner Dreaming of Escape. . ."
Listen to the Rap
Airport Taxi
Every One of the Cleaning Women