Alfred Edelman, with your eyes-- from poetry by Paulann Petersen (Oregon's poet laureate), in Alfred Edelman: Urban Compositions, photos by Alfred Edelman, essay by Kathleen Dean Moore, published by Pacific Northwest College of Arts.
I see anew
my own native place.
A side-swept entrance
opens into a tunnel
leading towards light,
towards celestial riverbeds.
Edelman was a Portland-based architect, photographer, and founder of Hotlips Pizza (yummmmmmmmm). This beautiful books features Edelman's photographs of urban fragments, coupled with Peterson's poems. It is lovely.
Urban Compositions is available at The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland (or on line), Broadway Books, or directly from Jeana Edelman.
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