Lines : no fire could burn / John Hejduk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hejduk, John, 1929-2000.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 1999.

Summary:

Architect and educator John Hejduk has devoted his life work to creating worlds, not only in his analytic architecture but in his mission to change the structure of architectural education. Hejduk has always accompanied all facets of his work with a haunting poetic narrative. He conceives for his projects a literary counterpoint or dramatic verbal discourse. In his books, he weaves together text and textured drawings, and he has conceived of his works as a cinematic repertory group of structures.

The 73 poems in Lines are a construction by an architect who seeks out the complex relationships of mother and son, of angels and their mysterious flights, of mental landscapes on the earth and in the sea; it is an entire book of idiosyncratic prayer, sustaining an almost unbearable tone of directness and suffering. These powerful religious poems offer strange combinations, where Jesus, Rodin, and Braque may coexist. Hejduk details the agony of consciousness itself in wild and concentrated stanzas, offering a kind of major mass for those who understand and have the power to voice affliction and the drive to transcend it in sacred music, bringing forth a new understanding of what it means to be human within the earthly substance and the celestial air. This book of courage and despair crowns Hejduk's life work.

Contents:

Christ in Prague / David Shapiro 13

1 To Absorb The Sins of Man 14

2 Will There Be Blood 15

3 Dig Into the Earth 16

4 Odor of His Havoc 17

5 The Weights of Hearts 18

6 Not Yet a Warning 20

7 Hells Angel Burns 21

8 Magnificent Night Angel 22

9 All This Before Me 23

10 The Returning Angel 24

11 I Bring to Others 25

12 Filled With Flame 27

13 A Shadow Fell 28

14 First Line of Dawn 29

15 A Metal Flower 30

16 Night Garden 31

17 The Last Supper 32

18 The Unearthly Weight 34

19 A Landscape 35

20 Cut in the Soil 36

21 Within 38

22 Inside of me 39

23 The Deposition 40

24 Permanent Remembrance 42

25 The Body and Wounds 44

26 His Elongated Body 45

27 The Darkness 47

28 Her Death 48

29 The Undertow of Thought 49

30 Sounds of Creation 53

31 In its Silence 55

32 Ocean Liquids 56

33 Who Will Believe in Me 57

34 Passage 59

35 In His Fathers House 60

36 Rain of Petals 61

37 The Green Room 63

38 The Panthers Silence 65

39 A Blue Rose 67

40 The Lake 69

41 The Wallpaper 71

42 Glaciers in The Sun 72

43 No fire Could Burn 74

44 Then an Explosion 75

45 In Unmoving Blood Stilled 76

46 I Will Build it of Stone 78

47 Holding Them Close 80

48 To Fresh Cold 82

49 In Natures Fields 83

50 His Shadow Cuts 85

51 Was There Time 86

52 This Day to Mourn 87

53 Leaving the Eyes Open 88

54 Interior Stones in the Night 90

55 Resplendent Glory 92

56 Your Contemplative Sadness 93

57 And to Solitude 95

58 Casketed Bones 96

59 Let Us Return 98

60 Sound of the Sea 100

61 A Church Spire Rose 102

62 The Sweet Juice Bled 103

63 Of Shades and Shadows 105

64 It Hardly Flowed 107

65 Your Anguish Burning 108

66 In Time Over Long Time 110

67 His Soul was Dancing 112

68 And What Are They 114

69 The Cliffs of Le Harve 116

70 In The Spring 118

71 The Air Became Cold 119

72 Pure Blue was Saved 120

73 Death of the Virgin 121

The Funeral of Jan Palach / David Shapiro 123.

ISBN:

1580930387

OCLC:

41273087