Sorrow, Architecture
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Oh, yes, a temporary house. Garage doors open all night. In each dark space we’ll park our new work. Imagine a portico so high an elephant could fit in the door. I’ve been reading The Sorrow of Architecture, a book about a lack of blueprints. The difficulty of sorrow is how it doesn’t cohere, the unbroken lines rubbed away over time. Last month my father’s heart attack ended our very long talk about sports, a career in divorce, of making one’s way to the coast where all the best buildings edge into nature. How a house, a property, is a horror. When the tall junipers give so much shade they make black. When behind one house is another the sun never finds. [End Page 53]
Christopher Salerno is the editor of Saturnalia Books and author of four poetry collections. His most recent book, Sun & Urn, was selected by Thomas Lux for the Georgia Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from uga Press. A New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellow, Salerno is currently an associate professor of English at William Paterson University.
