{"product_id":"ana-patova-crosses-a-bridge-9780984469390","title":"Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, it's the sentence that is alive and that is also a kind of architecture or landscape.\" --Amina Cain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory--of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. If any can. In Ravicka, meanings--indeed most contact of any kind--remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial. Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings. Rather, she thinks (and writes) the drifts, partitions, and immobilities of identity, affect, communication, the very possibility of being human. Profound, compelling--haunting, even--the story of Ravicka is astonishingly ours.\" (Lyn Hejinian)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy a Publishing Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984469390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Renee Gladman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614394720437,"sku":"9780984469390","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6ac835c1-eecd-44f1-92d2-74e868795799.jpg?v=1644900384","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ana-patova-crosses-a-bridge-9780984469390","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}