Such Places as Memory Poems 1953-1996

by Hejduk, John; Shapiro, David

• ISBN13: 9780262581585
• ISBN10: 0262581582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-28
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

John Hejduk: Poetry as Architecture, Architecture as Poetry	xii
David Shapiro
The Hesitation of Orpheus photograph of Greece, or still from Cocteau's film Orphee	2	(1)
Orpheus's Memory still from Cocteau's film Orphee	3	(1)
Diana still from Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast	4	(1)
Annunciation Leonardo's Annunciation painting	5	(1)
Bacchus Michelangelo sculpture	6	(1)
Saint Anne Content Leonardo painting	7	(1)
Florentine Grey Michelangelo / Tombs, Medici Chapel	8	(1)
A Dutch Interior Vermeer painting	9	(1)
Duet from Dutch painting	10	(1)
Without Interior Ingres painting	11	(1)
To Madame D'Haussonville Ingres painting	12	(1)
On a Bridge Magritte painting	13	(1)
Oslo Room Munch painting	14	(1)
The Metronome Matisse painting	15	(1)
France Is Far Hopper painting	16	(2)
Nature Morte Braque painting	18	(1)
Outside Rome Third Rome photograph	19	(1)
Venice (1953) Venice	20	(1)
Lampasas Square Court House Square, Lampasas, Texas	21	(1)
Cefalu After Lago Negro-Waco Time Cefalu	22	(2)
La Roche (1972) House of Le Corbusier	24	(2)
Helsinki Warehouses Helsinki Harbor	26	(2)
Oslo Hotel Oslo	28	(1)
Berlin Looms Berlin	29	(1)
A Miniature Volume Emily Dickinson's time/New England House	30	(1)
Arcadia Cranbrook	31	(1)
P.S. 47. BX. 1936 photograph of Bronx 1936	32	(3)
CU 1947 Cooper Union XXX El	35	(2)
Texas (1954) Austin	37	(2)
Out from Lampasas to Odessa rocking chair on porch	39	(1)
Cornelliana (1960) Heller House, Cornell	40	(2)
Northern Tiers Buffalo train station	42	(1)
Bus Ride Through Harlem street	43	(2)
A Monster Slain Uccello painting	45	(1)
A Birth Botticelli painting	46	(1)
Silk of Sprigs Botticelli painting	47	(1)
An Umbrian Passage painting	48	(1)
Olive Trees in Ochre Duccio painting	49	(1)
Tuscan Wheat Uccello painting	50	(1)
Saint Ursula's Dream Titian painting or Giorgione painting	51	(2)
Creation of the Animals Before Braque Tintoretto painting	53	(1)
Palladio Plans photograph	54	(1)
Horn Head of Burnt Offerings Dance of Death, Diirer or Breughel	55	(1)
Berlin Winter Mask Breughel painting	56	(2)
Victims	58	(1)
Victims II	59	(1)
Atomic Light Hiroshima photograph	60	(1)
Parallel Implosions Einstein in Berlin	61	(1)
Up There Groningen	62	(2)
The Sleep of Adam drawing Adam, Eve XXX Death	64	(10)
The Breath of Bacchus Michelangelo sculpture	74	(1)
Where Irises Once Were Michelangelo sculpture	75	(1)
A Journey of Two Michelangelo sculpture	76	(1)
You Once Were Michelangelo sculpture	77	(1)
Your Breath Was Contained Michelangelo sculpture	78	(1)
Her Son's Face Michelangelo sculpture	79	(1)
Eros Bronzino painting	80	(1)
Weightless Heart	81	(2)
Soundings eyes from Michelangelo's Madonna	83	(2)
Whispers of Prague Prague	85	(1)
Munch's Night Crossing Munch	86	(1)
The Panther of Potsdam Berlin	87	(1)
For the Berlin Painter Berlin	88	(1)
Anne Blanchot's Death Sentence	89	(1)
Lavina still from film Mourning Becomes Electra/O'Neill	90	(1)
Electra still from film Mourning Becomes Electra/O'Neill	91	(1)
Seville Blue Goya print	92	(1)
A Dead Oak Goya print	93	(1)
A Distant Breath Goya print	94	(1)
A Dark Plum Room photograph of a woman's face	95	(1)
Abduction Goya print	96	(1)
Under the Granite Arches Goya print	97	(1)
Devouring Angel Durer print	98	(1)
Obsession of Durer Durer print	99	(9)
A Lament Florentine column	108	(1)
Chartres Dusk Chartres	109	(1)
Rural Priest rural church	110	(2)
Hymn to a Sculptor Giacometti photograph	112	(1)
An Evening Conversation Matisse / Oslo	113	(2)
Investigation of a Museum Egyptian park	115	(1)
Archaeological Museum Athens park	116	(1)
Acropolis Athens	117	(1)
Medusa Medusa	118	(1)
Sentences on the House and Other Sentences	119