Prose Architectures

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Prose Architectures is a book of ink drawings by Renee Gladman that explores the intersections of language, architecture, and the physicality of writing. The work reveals how narrative and prose can take on spatial and visual forms, with sentences becoming drawings and writing seen as bodily movement. Through this innovative process, Gladman seeks to free language from conventional constraints, creating a unique blend of text and image. The book includes an afterword by Fred Moten.
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Format: Hardback

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This book will appeal to readers interested in experimental literature, visual art, and the creative interplay between text and form. It suits those fascinated by the boundaries of writing, drawing, and architectural theory.

Ink drawings by writer Renee Gladman in which language, architecture, narrative, and visual art dissolve into uncanny and innovative forms.

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Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes. - Eileen Myles

A book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the moment whereby architecture emerges out of prose, the sentence becomes a drawing, and the act of writing narrative can be examined from bodily movements. Gladman beautifully uses the drawings as an extension of her writing process, as a way to free language from constraint. Afterword by Fred Moten.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, and Calamities, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist, Danielle Vogel.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781940696461

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 July 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

By Renee Gladman

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 273.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Born in Atlanta, GA, in 1971, Renee Gladman studied Philosophy at Vassar College and Poetics at New College of California. In addition to Calamities (Wave Books, 2016), she is the author of eight works of prose, including the Ravicka novels Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), as well as a book of poetry, A Picture-Feeling. Her most recent work of fiction Morelia is forthcoming in 2016. A longtime publisher and bookmaker, her projects include Clamour (1996-1999), Leroy Chapbook series (1999-2003), and Leon Works (since 2005). She is the recipient of a 2014-2015 fellowship from The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a 2016 grant to artists from Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She lives in New England with poet-ceramicist, Danielle Vogel.