Strange Architectures

"This tour through Piranesian dreamworlds is also a tour through collective desire. With a subtle clarity, Jennifer Williams shows how our fears and longings manifest in architectural fantasies: the dream home, the model workplace, the palace of wonders. The buildings of these tense lyrics are at once familiar and disturbing, the way an influencer's aspirational feed betrays what's bloodthirsty about want. Where one poem comforts or pleases, another unsettles, and another confuses, because ...