Susan Stewart's The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture
in which Stewart, a poet, refers to ruins as "architectural 'non sequiturs,' forms that seem to cry out for 'the supplement of further reading, further syntax'"
(critic Clare Bucknell's summation)
see also the NYRB review of Stewart's book, July 2 2020
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