Limited Edition Chapbook
Room To
Room: Poetry & Architecture in Conversation
Three genre-jumping poets
with a background in architecture have joined together to exchange poems and thoughts about the architecture of poetry and the
poetry of architecture.
ARKITEXWERKS (2018) 4
1/2″w x 11″h, 100 numbered & signed
copies of this limited-edition chapbook were printed with archival
pigment inks on 28 lb. acid-free archival Mohawk Superfine Eggshell paper,
wrapped in 100% rag vellum endpapers and a cover of Strathmore 300 watercolour
paper, then hand-sewn with waxed linen thread.
My contributions to this document, include 2 poems: "Reversible Destiny 2", an archi-poem homage to Madeline Gins made by sampling text from "Procedural Architecture" - the middle chapter of Architectural Body (U. Alabama Press, 2002) by Arakawa/Gins;
and, my manifesto (or "__ifesto") on Archi-Poetry - which I'm happy to share here:
archi-poetry makes room for poetry and architecture to meet
archi-poetry throws them together, an embrace - in question
archi-poems are heuristic word towers, hopeful but flammable if architecture is for everyone and poetry is universal, then... archi-poetry is doubly open - a double opening?
archi-poetry is human, but liminal and infrasubjective
archi-poetry is imperfect, incomplete - we're in it together i found archi-poetry on a bookstore mezzanine, reading Louis Sullivan - and you? more than we know, poetry depends on the art of reading archi-poetry is a collaboration always under construction and ever in need of repair archi-poetry is a hammer and claw, rebuilding rebuilding archi-poetry experiments with strange and familiar fragments archi-poetry is a multi-story labyrinth with paper-thin wings archi-poetry built into situations, situations calling for poetry archi-poetry comes from within and without, a porous archive i found archi-poetry browsing in the library, pacing left, right left of Gertrude Stein, right of John Cage archi-poetry is hybrid inquiry, finding/making connections reading/writing openings, beginnings and rules, bending and breaking rules, responding to sources in question archi-poetry is a cosmic synthesizer improvising across scales music drama doubt desire, the foundations of archi-poetry archi-poetry precedes us - we awake in its wake i found archi-poetry in Aristotle and the ur-flaw of Lucretius in the Electricity, the Table and Door of Francis Ponge archi-poetry happens between lines and line breaks, breaking exquisite collage of plans and sections, in the making i found archi-poetry in Duchamp and the Theory of Sediment archi-poetry is a festival of genre-jumping pandemonium rhythms of urgency and calm in multifarious crossings archi-poetry raises questions, readers bringing more to the table layering, spilling-over concerns, making room for more in the architecture of poetry and poetry of architecture
— Ted Landrum, 2018
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