About Scott Cairns: Scott Cairns, PhD is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist.
He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.
I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
