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    Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind
    Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind
    Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind
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    Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind

    By Vladimir Azarov, Nina Bunjevac and Edward Kay

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    This is a book of border crossings, with Vladimir Azarov on the move, exploring inner architectures of luminous vibrancy: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan, Michaelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into his David, Tsar Peter with his three pet dwarfs acting as generals in the army, Vera Zasulich who became the world’s first woman terrorist, Robinson Crusoe hunting for the footprints of Friday, Michael Jackson pretending he is Marcel Marceau as he woos Marlene Dietrich in Paris, and more stand-out characters from history…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherExile Editions
    Release dateMay 1, 2016
    ISBN9781550965742
    Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind

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      Book preview

      Of Architecture - Vladimir Azarov

      Formatting note:
      In the electronic versions of this book
      blank pages that appear in the paperback
      have been removed.

      OF

      The Territories of a Mind

      ARCHITECTURE

      VLADIMIR

      AZAROV

      Illustrations by Nina Bunjevac
      With an Introduction by
      Edward Kay

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Azarov, Vladimir, 1935-, author

      Of architecture : the territories of a mind / Vladmir Azarov ;

      illustrations by Nina Bunjevac ; with an introduction by Edward Kay.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-559-9 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-55096-574-2 (epub).--

      ISBN 978-1-55096-577-3 (mobi).--ISBN 978-1-55096-578-0 (pdf)

      I. Bunjevac, Nina, illustrator II. Title.

      PS8601.Z37O32 2016 C811'.6 C2015-906963-7 / C2015-906964-5

      Copyright © Vladimir Azarov, 2015

      Interior drawings © Nina Bunjevac, used by permission of the artist.

      Design and Composition by Michael Callaghan.

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

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      PDF, ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2016. All rights reserved

      We gratefully acknowledge, for their support toward our publishing activities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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      contents

      An Introduction by Edward Kay

      I Of Madness

      II Of Memory

      III Of Mind

      IV Of Architecture

      V Of Words

      VI Of Geometry

      VII Of the Queen of Enlightenment

      VIII Of Deconstruction

      IX Of a Footprint in the Heart

      X Of Music

      XI Of Pop

      XII Of the Future

      XIII Of Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna

      XIV Of Catherine’s Volga Guests

      XV Of Fidel Castro

      XVI Of Terrorism

      Acknowledgements

      THE TERRITORIES OF A MIND

      An Introduction by Edward Kay

      The landscape of Vladimir Azarov’s newest collection of poetry, Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind, is surprisingly lively, given that it is populated by historical icons.

      But these territories are no excavation of cultural ossuaries. A profound point becomes apparent as one explores Azarov’s juxtaposition of lovely bones: his is a classically trained mind, just entered its eighth decade of life, still vibrantly trying to come to terms with that which we all ultimately face, the terrifying awareness of our own inescapable date with the black void of non-existence.

      Azarov grew up in the Stalinist-era Soviet Union, where loss of self, both metaphorically and literally, was the occupational hazard of anyone trying to get ahead in life while avoiding all attention: it was a society in which the secret police kept their eyes peeled.

      This is pointedly true in Azarov’s case. He grew up in Kazakhstan, where his father had been banished along with his family to internal exile after falling out of favour with fellow members of the Communist Party. Later, the apparatchiks deemed even Kazakhstan to be too close to Moscow, and then imprisoned his father in a Gulag after a neighbour snitched on him for the crime of listening to a Voice of America radio broadcast.

      The Soviet disregard for individual self-determination is in some ways a parallel to the ultimate

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