Wörterbuch, John KomurkiJohn Komurkis Worterbuch comprises a series of sparse and enigmatic texts. Resembling poetry, they are in fact abstracted from a multilingual dictionary published in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Excavated in this way from their their original context, these texts become a meditation on the ravages of war, and in particular its impact on civilian populations, as well as on how violence deforms language. In addition, however, they