The poet-protagonist of Samuel Delany’s 1975 novel Dhalgren, calls the city “a map of violences anticipated.” But what does intimacy, play or confusion look like in a landscape of anticipated violence? To see what New York looked like in 2020 is to experience the city as a dream. To see what George Grosz saw in Berlin nearly 100 years ago was to see a nightmare. Can the fabric of a million bricks maintain a tension unresolved?
Amygdala Journal plays with the fictions that hold reality together. Edited by Nata Perla-Ward and Chariot Wish. It is the online arm of Amygdala Books. Based out of New York City.