“A grain of sand in heaven’s eye”: Alice Goodman’s History is Our Mother

Alice Goodman's libretti are complex poetic works, always echoing the modern world: The Death of Klinghoffer seems to crystallize the tensions of era, without directly emphasizing the political debate, but rather focusing on the human consequences. Nixon in China also resonates with actual fears of seeing two worlds collapsing on each other: the meeting of Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong indeed looks like a distant mirror image of Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un's recent encounter. But what can be described as the inevitable parallelism between past and present times is not the only aspect highlighted by Alice Goodman. In writing thought-provoking libretti, Alice Goodman also asks questions about the place of ultra-modernity and contemporary events in art. In History is Our Mother, she seems to write between the lines that poetry is her daughter. In fact, what haunts her libretti is a magnificent affirmation of art regarding History: poetry can indeed whisper in the ears of modern times.

“A grain of sand in heaven’s eye”: Alice Goodman’s History is Our Mother

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