Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement silas-finch with the lightning-struck pines and

with the lightning-struck pines and truncated stumps and the rivers running red

But neither is darkness allowed to swallow the bitter sweet moments of disclosure

The first time

The evocative images and poems collected in Eros & Thanatos conjure memories of love and loss

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement silas-finch with the lightning-struck pines andIn the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil