Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape A Book by Brian Hayes industrial-landscape.com Savage, hostile, and cruelNature undisturbedThe raw materials of societyThe draglineDark satanic steel+21 More The Factory Photographs infrastructuretechnologyurbanismindustrynetworks
The way an oyster does A Fragment by Kay Ryan www.csmonitor.com Her poems, [Kay Ryan] says, don't begin with a simple image or sound, but instead start "the way an oyster does, with an aggravation." An old saw may nudge her repeatedly, such as "It's always darkest before the dawn" or "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "I think, 'What about those chickens?' " she says, "and I start an investigation of what that means. Poets rehabilitate clichés." poetrymeaningcliché