From the Archive: Talia Zajac (CAROUSEL 22)

From the Archive: Talia Zajac (CAROUSEL 22)

TALIA ZAJAC Bebelplatz 1933 and 2005 i Smouldering and cracking open, the pages furling into black ash, tossed by the thousands, the books perish as words crinkle, blacken, turn to dust, putting Wells and Marx and Mann in the same circle of the inferno as young men hold torches and offer hemlock to Socrates: nobody wants to hear about death in Venice. ii The ash blows away the words, as I stand in Bebelplatz, where

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From the Archive: Ian Williams (CAROUSEL 22)

From the Archive: Ian Williams (CAROUSEL 22)

IAN WILLIAMS The Commute Nobody ever survives. — Margaret Atwood                                                    Ikemefuna certainly didn’tmake it through the forest, pot of palm wine on his head, with an entourage of slammer mouthed men who led him to believe he was going home. A lie, but they meant well. Machete to the neck. Then the unnecessary announcementMy father they have killed me, past perfect, as if he were already dead. And good weather, maps, company, trusty ship,

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