longing”. Here is the sign of the “wounded
healer”. Wieners is astutely aware of a spirit
world and animism and presents a question to the
reader if they feel or sense the same as he in
“Time” when he states “Are you quiet enough to
hear horned owls at dawn?”. Wieners is the
shaman-poet of secrets and shadows.
II
In his writings on “the theatre of cruelty”,
Artaud seeks to develop a theatre which “inspires
us with the fiery magnetism of its images and acts
upon us like a spiritual therapeutics whose touch
can never be forgotten” (Gorelick, 2011). It has
been termed “an impossible theatre” vital for
what it generated but ultimately “hopelessly
vague and metaphorical in its concrete detail”
(Abiline, 2013). The living project of Carl Solomon
follows similar lines. He had travelled abroad and
become interested in surrealism and Dadaism. His
pursuit and search in the Avant-garde led him to a
showing of Artaud’s theatre which had a profound
and lasting impact on him but he was soon to
become stricken with, in the words of Ginsberg's
Howl, "the concrete void of insulin". Solomon was
committed to Rockland and one of his best poems
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