The poems of architect 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. This is the first comprehensive collection of Hejduk's poems to be published outside an architectural setting The poems of an architect whose affection for urban reality and imagined space is as evident in his writing as in his buildings and drawings. John Hejduk: Poetry as Architecture, Architecture as Poetry xii David Shapiro The Hesitation of Orpheus photograph of Greece, or still from Cocteau's film Orphee 2(1) Orpheus's Memory still from Cocteau's film Orphee 3(1) Diana still from Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast 4(1) Annunciation Leonardo's Annunciation painting 5(1) Bacchus Michelangelo sculpture 6(1) Saint Anne Content Leonardo painting 7(1) Florentine Grey Michelangelo / Tombs, Medici Chapel 8(1) A Dutch Interior Vermeer painting 9(1) Duet from Dutch painting 10(1) Without Interior Ingres painting 11(1) To Madame D'Haussonville Ingres painting 12(1) On a Bridge Magritte painting 13(1) Oslo Room Munch painting 14(1) The Metronome Matisse painting 15(1) France Is Far Hopper painting 16(2) Nature Morte Braque painting 18(1) Outside Rome Third Rome photograph 19(1) Venice (1953) Venice 20(1) Lampasas Square Court House Square, Lampasas, Texas 21(1) Cefalu After Lago Negro-Waco Time Cefalu 22(2) La Roche (1972) House of Le Corbusier 24(2) Helsinki Warehouses Helsinki Harbor 26(2) Oslo Hotel Oslo 28(1) Berlin Looms Berlin 29(1) A Miniature Volume Emily Dickinson's time/New England House 30(1) Arcadia Cranbrook 31(1) P.S. 47. BX. 1936 photograph of Bronx 1936 32(3) CU 1947 Cooper Union XXX El 35(2) Texas (1954) Austin 37(2) Out from Lampasas to Odessa rocking chair on porch 39(1) Cornelliana (1960) Heller House, Cornell 40(2) Northern Tiers Buffalo train station 42(1) Bus Ride Through Harlem street 43(2) A Monster Slain Uccello painting 45(1) A Birth Botticelli painting 46(1) Silk of Sprigs Botticelli painting 47(1) An Umbrian Passage painting 48(1) Olive Trees in Ochre Duccio painting 49(1) Tuscan Wheat Uccello painting 50(1) Saint Ursula's Dream Titian painting or Giorgione painting 51(2) Creation of the Animals Before Braque Tintoretto painting 53(1) Palladio Plans photograph 54(1) Horn Head of Burnt Offerings Dance of Death, Diirer or Breughel 55(1) Berlin Winter Mask Breughel painting 56(2) Victims 58(1) Victims II 59(1) Atomic Light Hiroshima photograph 60(1) Parallel Implosions Einstein in Berlin 61(1) Up There Groningen 62(2) The Sleep of Adam drawing Adam, Eve XXX Death 64(10) The Breath of Bacchus Michelangelo sculpture 74(1) Where Irises Once Were Michelangelo sculpture 75(1) A Journey of Two Michelangelo sculpture 76(1) You Once Were Michelangelo sculpture 77(1) Your Breath Was Contained Michelangelo sculpture 78(1) Her Son's Face Michelangelo sculpture 79(1) Eros Bronzino painting 80(1) Weightless Heart 81(2) Soundings eyes from Michelangelo's Madonna 83(2) Whispers of Prague Prague 85(1) Munch's Night Crossing Munch 86(1) The Panther of Potsdam Berlin 87(1) For the Berlin Painter Berlin 88(1) Anne Blanchot's Death Sentence 89(1) Lavina still from film Mourning Becomes Electra/O'Neill 90(1) Electra still from film Mourning Becomes Electra/O'Neill 91(1) Seville Blue Goya print 92(1) A Dead Oak Goya print 93(1) A Distant Breath Goya print 94(1) A Dark Plum Room photograph of a woman's face 95(1) Abduction Goya print 96(1) Under the Granite Arches Goya print 97(1) Devouring Angel Durer print 98(1) Obsession of Durer Durer print 99(9) A Lament Florentine column 108(1) Chartres Dusk Chartres 109(1) Rural Priest rural church 110(2) Hymn to a Sculptor Giacometti photograph 112(1) An Evening Conversation Matisse / Oslo 113(2) Investigation of a Museum Egyptian park 115(1) Archaeological Museum Athens park 116(1) Acropolis Athens 117(1) Medusa Medusa 118(1) Sentences on the House and Other Sentences 119