‘City Blocks’ is a series of translations that transpose image into text. Each poem is an evocation of an image, reimagining the city from visual data, rather than a poem about the experience of that place.
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“‘City Blocks’ is a series of translations of New York City from photographs into poetry. I focused on a purely visual medium, photography, and imagining the world each image came from, rather than drawing from the experience of taking the photo, as a source of inspiration.”—Elizabeth Cheshire