hatever your politics, we can probably agree that September 11, 2001, was one of those “before and after” moments for just about everybody. The world DID change. That’s the easy part, even if it’s hard to take. But Elein Fleiss, the esteemed Purple magazine co-founder, has chosen in her onestar press book to show us her rendition of the “during”, those moments when our minds struggled to absorb the enormity of it all. Elein has managed togive us a visual representation of consciousnessactually shifting by juxtaposing images of the world with images ofsomeone reading a newspaper, etc. That black date, the book’s title, does the rest, along with your memory. This book makes me think of the film Shoah (remember that forest?) or Frank O’Hara’s famous poem on the death of Billy Holiday. Fleiss’s instincts are exactlyright, and she found the poetry that persists in an unacceptable world. RD

Elein Fleiss
Septembre
Published July 2002

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