{"product_id":"ana-patova-crosses-a-bridge","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)","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616378937710,"sku":"9780984469390","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_44f66e91-9986-4de4-9d7c-f1a12ce2e28e.jpg?v=1775957969","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/ana-patova-crosses-a-bridge","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}