Awarded the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, this debut manuscript showcases the author's unique approach to poetic expression. The work is characterized by its inventive style and fresh perspectives, pushing the boundaries of traditional poetry. It invites readers to explore new themes and forms, reflecting the author's distinct voice and creativity in the literary landscape.
Amidst the uncertainty of a breakup and quarantine in March 2020, a depressed professor finds solace in poetry while isolated at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Struggling with asthma and the challenges of high altitude, he reflects on themes of home and belonging, capturing the emotional turmoil of his situation through verse. The book explores the intersection of personal crisis and creativity, revealing how art can emerge from confinement and despair.
Exploring the intersection of modernist architecture and gender, this book utilizes case studies from the US and UK to reveal how architectural spaces can influence and reflect human transformation. It delves into the often-overlooked connections between spatial metaphors and gender identity, highlighting the potential of architecture to shape our understanding of self and social constructs. Through its analysis, it challenges traditional perceptions of space, offering insights into the complexities of identity and the built environment.
Imagine: a public park that floats above the city, slicing the urban grey with its narrow green body. It winds its way through Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea to the Rail Yards. It is the beneficiary of millionaires, politicians, and citizens, who rescued it from demolition. Every tour book points here. Cities around the world clamor to reclaim their own abandoned train tracks as parks, inspired by this success. This is High Line Park. Imagine: the Meatpacking District, 1989. Affordable apartments in Chelsea. Queer and racialized youth vogue, using piers as their runways. A transsexual community bands together. The fight for AIDS awareness takes hold. After sunsink, punks and urban adventurers hoist themselves onto the abandoned train tracks, where seeds dropped from loose locomotive doors have bloomed into an elsewhere-landscape, commemorating dead commerce. This was the High Line. The High Line Scavenger Hunt is a poetic search for the ruins and relics of this fraught space that straddles violent gentrification and erased histories. This is a scavenger hunt, but the list of items is written in invisible ink. Lucas Crawford leans in to the tensions between the revitalized High Line Park and the queer histories of the High Line neighborhood, braiding transgender history, autobiographical reflection, and architectural speculation into a commentary on the histories now lost to gentrification.