Such Places as Memory: Poems 1953-1996

by John Hejduk

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262581582
• ISBN13: 9780262581585
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher