Beauty and Death

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Many images below from photos by JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

Poets, they say, are inspired by “the shock of beauty and the shock of death.” Here are some examples of both.

First, death. Here are crucifixions of (left to right, top to bottom) MARIE-CLARE CHARBA in TOM EYEN’s The White Whore and the Bit Player, La Mama; Reynolds Callender in DONALD L. BROOKS’ Superfreak, Playbox Studio; CHARLES STANLEY in his own The Sun King,Theatre Genesis; unknown in H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ Turtles Don’t Dream, Theater for the New City; JOSEPH PICHETTE in my Dynel, The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern; GARY SWARTZ in JOE RENARD’s The Word of God, W.P.A.

Beauty: CONNIE CLARK, EDITH LAURIE, SYLVIENNE STRAUSS, painting of HOPE STANSBURY, BERNADETTE PETERS, MAGIE DOMINIC, LINDA ESKENAS,…

MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA, PHOEBE WRAY, JANE LOWRY, MARY WORONOV,
CLARIS NELSON, DEBORAH LEE/LAWLOR, ZITA LITVINAS, LUCY SILVAY…

…and MATT BAYLOR, WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, JIM JENNINGS, BILL HAISLIP, DEAN SELMIER, LANFORD WILSON, MICHAEL POWELL, STEVE VAN VOST/DAVIS, PETER BROWN, VICTOR LI PARI, JOHN GILMAN, DAVID CHRISTMAS, FRED FORREST, and KEITH CARSEY.