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Such Places as Memory

By John Hejduk

Such Places as Memory Poetry

Such Places as Memory

By John Hejduk

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The poems of an architect whose affection for urban reality and imagined space is as evident in his writing as in his buildings and drawings. The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's writings on Paris were often more real than the experience of Paris itself. Both drawing and writing contain a compaction of themes which in their conceptual density deny reduction and exfoliation for a reality of another kind: together they reveal an essence of architecture itself." This is the first comprehensive collection of Hejduks poems to be published outside an architectural setting.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
1998-04-28
Publication Date:
1998-04-28
Publisher:
MIT Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0262581582
ISBN13:
9780262581585
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
216 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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