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Book SynopsisArchitectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological direction for work in the humanities: a literal wager that is willing to take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time, they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John Cage and Lyn Hejinian.
Table of ContentsCraig DWORKIN: Introduction: Against Metaphor (construye en lo ausente) Jed RASULA: “When the mind is like a hall”: Places of a Possible Poetics Gregg BIGLIERI: Sublime Façade: Borromini’s Oratorio and the Presentation of Radical Exteriority A.S. BESSA: Vers: Une Architecture Tyrus MILLER : Concrete Dialects, Spatial Dialectics : Friedrich Achleitner as Poet and Architectural Historian Michel DELVILLE: How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins Steve McCAFFERY: Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap Karen Mac CORMACK: MUTUAL LABYRINTH: a proposal of exchange Jeff DERKSEN: “The Obvious Analogy Is With [Architecture]”: Megastructural My Life Marjorie PERLOFF: John Cage’s Dublin, Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad John Cage’s Dublin, Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces María Eugenia DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ: Coda
