The East Village Eye explores the burgeoning arts scene in New York’s East Village during the 70’s and 80’s. The May 1983 “Holocaust Memorial” issue celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Articles reframe the dissent through a modern sociopolitical lens. Leonard Abrams confronts Adorno’s assertion that “there can no longer be poetry after Auschwitz”, noting instead that “there may be poetry again but there will never be the illusion of utopia”. Brad Davis and Dieter Shidor discuss  Rainer Fassbinder’s “Querelle, The Wizard of Babylon, Jean Genet, and Sex and Death”. Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis examines his performance as Frances Farmer in I Died Yesterday. Rob Urie poses a set of provocative questions for Reagan Youth frontman Dave Insurgent. Self described “intelligent hardcore” band TSOL explains that “they don’t wanna be classified” following their performance at Great Gildersleeves. Dennis Hopper talks shop about his directorial approach for 1983’s Out of the Blue. Tuli Kupferberg contributes a missed connection for the month’s Letters column. Jane Webb sinks her teeth into art stars Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl, Susan Rothenberg, and Robert Longo noting that if their work in the year’s Whitney Biennial “is the forecast of art in the 80’s, we should all join our hands together in prayer.”