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.
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"John Hejduk's volume [is]... best read as a kind of verbal outrigger to his remarkable, darkly lyrical architectural fables and masques (such as the Lancaster/Hanover, Masque and Vladivostock), Hejduk's poems are not so much pure poetry as they are linguistic structures generated from and attached to his architectural practice... The writing is like a muffled drumbeat. `Poetry and architecture,' notes David Shapiro, `are not just contingent analogues for Hejduk. They are both building arts.'" -- Gary Michael Dault, Azure, November/December 1998
"The building would seem to be done, would be done, and beautifully so, by a lesser viewer-poet; but Hejduk, the architect himself, the enduring educator, the draftsman and designer extraordinary, sees beyond to the resurrections not there, to the height Gothic spires also aspire to: and you?/you simply evaporated into the heavens. Directly addressing the sculptor, Hejduk authorizes Michelangelo's ascension. He crowns what he has made us see with the transcended spirit we have previously only known to call great, immortal. For such a single gift of recalled sight and sound building, I would buy and praise any book of poems. I tell you, though, that Such Places as Memory exhibits many such wonders." -- Ronald Christ, New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), November 15, 1998
Abduction
Acropolis
Anne
Annunciation
Arcadia
Archaeological Museum
Atomic Light
Bacchus
Berlin Looms
Berlin Winter Mask
A Birth
The Breath Of Bacchus
Bus Ride Through
Cefalu After Lago Negro-waco Time
Chartres Dusk
Cornelliana (1960)
Creation Of The Animals Before Braque
Cu 1947
A Dark Plum Room
A Dead Oak
Devouring Angel
Diana
A Distant Breath
Duet
A Dutch Interior
Electra
Eros
An Evening Conversation
Florentine Grey
For The Berlin Painter
France Is Far
Helsinki Warehouses
Her Son's Face
The Hesitation Of Orpheus
Horn Head Of Burnt Offerings
Hymn To A Sculptor
Investigation Of A Museum
A Journey Of Two
La Roche (1972)
A Lament
Lampasas Square
Lavina
Medusa
The Metronome
A Miniature Volume
A Monster Slain
Munch's Night Crossing
Nature Morte
Northern Tiers
Obsession Of Durer
Olive Trees In Ochre
On A Bridge
Orpheus's Memory
Oslo Hotel
Oslo Room
Out From Lampasas To Odessa
Outside Rome
P.s. 47. Bx. 1936
Palladio Plans
The Panther Of Potsdam
Parallel Implosions
Rural Priest
Saint Anne Content
Saint Ursula's Dream
Sentences On The House And Other Sentences .......
Sentences On The House And Other Sentences: 2.
Seville Blue
Silk Of Sprigs
The Sleep Of Adam
Soundings
Texas (1954)
To Madame D'haussonville
Tuscan Wheat
An Umbrian Passage
Under The Granite Arches
Up There
Venice (1953)
Victims
Victims Ii
Weightless Heart
Where Irises Once Were
Whispers Of Prague
Without Interior
You Once Were
Your Breath Was Contained
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
"The building would seem to be done, would be done, and beautifully so, by a lesser viewer-poet; but Hejduk, the architect himself, the enduring educator, the draftsman and designer extraordinary, sees beyond to the resurrections not there, to the height Gothic spires also aspire to: and you?/you simply evaporated into the heavens. Directly addressing the sculptor, Hejduk authorizes Michelangelo's ascension. He crowns what he has made us see with the transcended spirit we have previously only known to call great, immortal. For such a single gift of recalled sight and sound building, I would buy and praise any book of poems. I tell you, though, that Such Places as Memory exhibits many such wonders." -- Ronald Christ, New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), November 15, 1998
Abduction
Acropolis
Anne
Annunciation
Arcadia
Archaeological Museum
Atomic Light
Bacchus
Berlin Looms
Berlin Winter Mask
A Birth
The Breath Of Bacchus
Bus Ride Through
Cefalu After Lago Negro-waco Time
Chartres Dusk
Cornelliana (1960)
Creation Of The Animals Before Braque
Cu 1947
A Dark Plum Room
A Dead Oak
Devouring Angel
Diana
A Distant Breath
Duet
A Dutch Interior
Electra
Eros
An Evening Conversation
Florentine Grey
For The Berlin Painter
France Is Far
Helsinki Warehouses
Her Son's Face
The Hesitation Of Orpheus
Horn Head Of Burnt Offerings
Hymn To A Sculptor
Investigation Of A Museum
A Journey Of Two
La Roche (1972)
A Lament
Lampasas Square
Lavina
Medusa
The Metronome
A Miniature Volume
A Monster Slain
Munch's Night Crossing
Nature Morte
Northern Tiers
Obsession Of Durer
Olive Trees In Ochre
On A Bridge
Orpheus's Memory
Oslo Hotel
Oslo Room
Out From Lampasas To Odessa
Outside Rome
P.s. 47. Bx. 1936
Palladio Plans
The Panther Of Potsdam
Parallel Implosions
Rural Priest
Saint Anne Content
Saint Ursula's Dream
Sentences On The House And Other Sentences .......
Sentences On The House And Other Sentences: 2.
Seville Blue
Silk Of Sprigs
The Sleep Of Adam
Soundings
Texas (1954)
To Madame D'haussonville
Tuscan Wheat
An Umbrian Passage
Under The Granite Arches
Up There
Venice (1953)
Victims
Victims Ii
Weightless Heart
Where Irises Once Were
Whispers Of Prague
Without Interior
You Once Were
Your Breath Was Contained
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
About the Author
John Hejduk is an architect and Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, New York. Forty of his poems appeared in a 1980 limited edition portfolio, The Silent Witnesses and Other Poems.
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