Documentary Poetry John Wilkinson In the mid-1970s

In the mid-1970s

it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian

In 1996 verwierf het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam enkele unica

a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self-portrait

Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census

Documentary Poetry John Wilkinson In the mid-1970sHeimrad Bcker Austrian poet and photographer Heimrad Bcker's essays, collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of his investigation into the memory of the Holocaust. A prominent member of the Austrian avant garde, Heimrad Bcker (1925 2003) devoted decades to the development of a singular documentary style. For most of his adult life, Bcker directed