Casts of Civil War-era “pain bullets” (bullets used by soldiers to bite on during surgery) made from dissolved audiotape recordings of poets’ voices; lace and fabric from mourning dresses; ink dyed yellowheart and ash; nickel, silver, milk paint, typeset

Walt Whitman – America
Lord Alfred Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
Siegfried Sassoon – Died of Wounds
T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland
Robert Graves – In Procession
Dylan Thomas – A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
David Jones – In Parenthesis