"The creation of durational spaces in a poem – great but empty halls,
narrow corridors, closets, enclosed pools, formal picture galleries, off
and on ramps, pulleys and trap doors between levels – produces an
internal or negative (in the sense of inverted or inner) architecture. –
You are entering a building through a dark and musty
subbasement; proceeding a few steps, you trip onto an elevator platform
and are whisked to what is something like the 23rd floor, where you are
stepping out into an abandoned soundstage... sighting a ladder, you
climb up a flight onto a floor filled with hundreds of irregularly
shaped cubicles populated by women dressed as Matadors..."
— Charles Bernstein, The Book as Architecture (essay),
in My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999) p56.
— Charles Bernstein, The Book as Architecture (essay),
in My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999) p56.
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