David Brendan Hopes Livres

The lives of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on New York's Lower East Side in 1911, imagined for the stage.

But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. - Franz Kafka I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. - William Butler Yeats the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? - Galway Kinnell