In his poem “Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death,” Bill Holm plays a Haydn sonata in order to entice Death into a dance, an activity that erodes his appetite for ghoulish work: when the music ends, he will “nap a while and stay away.” Death’s visit is delayed, at least for the time being. “That’s the idea,” concludes Holm. “I got it from Haydn.” Holm’s poem is just one example of a phenomenon ...

Not While We’re Shitting. Anality in Memoir from the Warsaw Uprising The text presents a new approach to by Miron Białoszewski – an analysis perspective of anality. article suggests that wartime suspends usual taboo “privatisation shit,” and public toilets shelters become “agoras,” function which they used perform antiquity. Białoszewski’s quasi-anthropological account actually mentions organis...