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Pier 52

  • ISBN-13: 9781800175921
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Jane Duran
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 28/10/2026
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In the summer of 1975, the artist Gordon Matta-Clark broke into Pier 52, an abandoned warehouse on the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. He described the pier as 'an intact nineteenth century industrial relic of steel and corrugated tin looking like an enormous Christian basilica whose dim interior was barely lit by the clerestory windows fifty feet overhead.' Using hand-held tools, he and his helpers removed some heavy floor beams so the river below was exposed. They made cuts into the walls and roof of the warehouse. In this way movement and light entered the vast space so it became 'a sun and water celebration'. He named this project 'Day's Passing', and then 'Day's End'. Jane Duran's new book Pier 52 offers a remarkable response to and development of Matta-Clark's aesthetic, inspired by seeing the interdependence of disruption and invention; the radical creation of new spaces in existing constructs; the way removal can alter our perception of a whole structure, animating new vistas and aesthetics; the action of working with what is already there, preserving, recycling and transforming: all are present in his work and words. Duran's Pier 52 makes new spaces for its readers to think, whether revisiting 1970s Manhattan or noticing the closed spaces of Palestine now.
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. In 1995, Enitharmon published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published four subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005. Together with Gloria Garcia Lorca, she translated Lorca's Gypsy Ballads (Enitharmon, 2011), and his Sonnets of Dark Love and The Tamarit Divan (Enitharmon, 2017). Her collection the clarity of distant things was published by Carcanet in 2021.
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