Museum Correspondence

by Susan Hwang

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This is track 07 on the Accordion Babes 2023 Calendar and Album.
The song was written for the Bushwick Book Club event celebrating literary magazine Epiphany.

The song is a response to the poem, "Museum Correspondence" by Beth Piatote. The lyrics are directly quoted from the poem.

The calendar and album can be purchased in the merch section of this very page.

Read the poem here: epiphanyzine.com/features/2022/1/3/museum-correspondence-by-beth-piatote

Read Epiphany: epiphanyzine.com

Find out about Bushwick Book Club: bushwickbookclub.com

lyrics

We write regarding the missing remains of our ancestor, a child.
referred to by the museum as catalogue number 12-3552.
Not only was the grave of this young person violated,
now we have to live with the knowledge that the child's remains
may be in the closet, attic or a desk drawer of a researcher.
This is a very difficult and gruesome matter for us.
Imagine having to ask members of another society
to look for the stolen and subsequently lost
bodies of your own relatives.

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released January 22, 2023
Susan Hwang - vocals, accordion, beatbox, keyboard

Mixed and mastered by Charlie Nieland
Recorded at Charlie Nieland Studios
charlienieland.com

Cover Photo by Bob Krasner, bobkrasner.com

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