1.
Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
Kozelek expresses his sense of ~ absolutely without self-pity.
= misery
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2.
If you refer to ~ in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.
We looked out upon a scene of ~ and ruin...
= devastation
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