Martin Desht is a documentary photographer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work on post-industrial American cities has been exhibited at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, New York University, sometimes with poets who either read at these exhibits or attended them: Philip Levine, Jean Valentine, Gerald Stern and Stanley Kunitz, among others. His book Photosonata was cited as A Best Art Book for 2015. In 2006, he was photographer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Belfast, where he created the documentary exhibit A Certain Peace: Acceptance and Defiance in Northern Ireland. Other exhibited works are Faces from an American Dream and Voices of Conscience: Portraits of Poets and Writers.
The Home’s western boundary were the tracks of the Liberty Bell Line, a trolley that had operated between Allentown and Philadelphia in the nineteen-forties. It was a single track on a ballast of rubble-filled earth that arched over our creek, a shallow meandering stream which had been re-channelled through a concrete tunnel. By 1956,…
The Home often careened into a panic-stricken, twelfth-century German village. Sister Superintendent Alfreda believed that all dogs were rabid and vicious, hence dog and “wolf” sightings were especial cause for pitchforks and torches, or so it seemed. Sisters Petra and Hademunda would herd us into a barn for a round of Hail Marys. Mr….
