The Lamentations

Patrick Anderson is professor in the Departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. His previous books include Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Pal- grave, 2009), So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance (Duke, 2010), and Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017).

Prologue | 1

I. Introitus | 13

i. Office of the dead (Officium defunctorum) | 14

ii. All flesh (Omnis caro) | 19

iii. And he shall be like a tree (Et erit tamquam lignum) | 26

II. Dies Irae | 31

III. Kyrie Eleison | 51

i. Sorrowful is my soul (Tristis est anima mea) | 52

ii. What am I, miserable, then to say? (Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?) | 58

iii. My soul is weary with my life (Taedet animam meam vitae meae) | 70

IV. Lacrimosa | 75

V. Offertorium | 93

i. Through the tombs (Per sepulcra) | 94

ii. Seeking me, you sat down wearily (Quaerens me sedisti lassus) | 96

iii. Let not the abyss swallow them, lest they fall into obscurity

(Ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum) | 101

VI. Sanctus | 108

i. I kneel with submissive heart (Oro supplex et acclinis) | 109

ii. Great trembling there will be (Quantus tremor est futurus) | 111

iii. Hail, true body (Ave verum corpus) | 128

VII. Benedictus | 132

i. Death has struck (Mors stupebit) | 133

ii. May the martyrs greet you at your arrival (Adventu suscipiant te martyres) | 142

VIII. Agnus Dei | 155

IX. Libera Me | 174

i. A heart reduced to ashes (Cor contritum quasi cinis) | 175

ii. When from the dust shall rise (Qua resurget ex favilla) | 183

iii. That which is hidden will appear (Quidquid latet apparebit) | 196

X. In Paradisum | 199

i. Eternal light (Lux aeterna) | 200

ii. Perpetual light (Lux perpetua) | 207

Coda | 217

Acknowledgments | 225

Notes | 229

Bibliography | 243

Index | 255