COSMOS AND DAMIAN: A WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAGE
Author: Michalski, David
2005
0-9711935-3-3
fifteen dollars
“Composed ‘under the shadow’ of the World Trade Center, and not in its ashes, COSMOS AND DAMIAN is a far-reaching, dazzling investigation into the daily life of the WTC, where the intersections and findings are so rich and complex that no single genre can contain it. Part poem, part anthropological/architectural study, part socio-historical document, part memoir, Michalski walks us through the everyday life of Corporate America. Started in 1994 and stopped at the moment of the bombing, COSMOS AND DAMIAN defines a nerve center of western culture-the metropolis before the necropolis, as it were — by recording the minutia of office detail and the language of its workers: ‘you got the casual wear, you got the fun, you got a place making money . . . what more is there?’ Sure enough.”
Robert Fitterman
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Review by David Madgalene in RAIN TAXI
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