The idea of a book-as-a-poem guided Dennis Barone's selections for "Separate Objects". "You want to follow the railroad tracks like an Indian ear to the track" . The poems put as much stress on listening to words as sounding them. "How can I speak, / if within is only silence" . The epistemological theme running through the book -- how do we know and how do we know it -- connects with Robert Venturi's notion of the familiar shifted off its axis. "The familiar that is a little off", the architect has said, "has strange and revealing power".
The idea of a book-as-a-poem guided Dennis Barone's selections for "Separate Objects". "You want to follow the railroad tracks like an Indian ear to the track" . The poems put as much stress on listening to words as sounding them. "How can I speak, / if within is only silence" . The epistemological theme running through the book -- how do we know and how do we know it -- connects with Robert Venturi's notion of the familiar shifted off its axis. "The familiar that is a little off", the architect has said, "has strange and revealing power".