the book presents a rare outsider’s view of the Metabolist movement and figures such as Kenzō Tange by one of the most astute critics of the second part of the twentieth century
"Mah Nà Mah Nà" (originally "Viva la Sauna Svedese" ("Hooray for the Swedish Sauna"))
She lives in Paris as a writer in residence at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination
who early on paid attention to ecology
Works and Days - Bernadette Mayer environment the book presents a rarePart springtime journal (why are there thorns?), "Works and Days" meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, Go Away welcome mats, books, floods (never of dollar money), the invention of words, local politics, friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page delights. As the poet herself