In Bending Our Ear Downward

This collection of poems is the result of a joint project between myself (Horticultural Science Professor University of Minnesota USA) and Lynn Silverman (Photography Professor Maryland Institute College of Art USA) while we were in the Czech Republic as J. William Fulbright Scholars. Together with my late husband Mark Gilquist (Mathematics Professor Anoka-Hennepin School District MN USA) we explored a number of Jewish cemeteries (židovský hřbitov) around Bohemia and Moravia as an alternative way to experience the Holocaust's impacts. I recorded plants which thrived in these abandoned oases. After visits to 7 židovský hřbitov I wrote poems to encapsulate their horticultural history destructive past and modern-day desecration. On 18 May 2016 during our Still...Life exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA) I read these 7 poems and presented history and photographs to provide additional context. This in its entirety is what is contained in this monograph.