MAGIC BOX

MAGIC BOXFrom the press: In Swanns Way, Proust is famously stricken with sudden, voluminous memory with one bite of a madeleine. In Peach Kanders Magic Box, the object device is the book itself wherein the reader is immediately dizzied by the question of where to begin and what is real. The summer I was crowned Miss Rockaway Beach, Kander opens their first poem, everyone was wearing those velour tracksuits, which are so hard to shake sand out of. It becomes

James Brown

which she began showing in 1951

Brookie takes her lamb for a head-clearing walk

Feminist Press

revelation—at least for certain people

Only at the end of the twentieth century could a writer create this compelling combination of experience and imagination

He is the co-author of Are We Human: Notes on an Archaeology of Design with Beatriz Colomina

Ron Padgett

documenting it with a wealth of iconography and enriching it with a critical

Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture

and wanting more

alone and together