Roman Exercises

Poetry. "The inspiration for ROMAN EXERCISES stems from my reading of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety. It is an ancient impulse. His work may be thought of as a set of 'exercises' for responsible citizenship, as opposed to the objectification of citizenship by consumer-based processes of identification. Social justice is an aspect of a necessary synthesis. The elements are musical, melancholic, ethnographic."—Donald Wellman