Without You

Author: Ditta Baron Hoeber

Publisher: Eyewear Publishing (2025)

An infant is mortally ill and cries and cries. A child wishes the terrible crying to end. The infant dies.

Without You is without the infant. It is also without the self that hides from itself in fear of itself. It is a record of the struggle to understand and to restore the self. The photographs described in the poems act as evidence – who was there, who was I, what does it mean. Making art is portrayed as an act of exploration and as a means of staying alive. The writing is formed to parallel the interplay of masked and unmasked thoughts that are the slow and nonlinear path to recognition and to understanding in this powerful, gripping sequence.