Plans for Sentences

“architecturally attuned poetry which expands the term to include text as drawing / drawing as text here's a snippet from a Rumpus review: "For those unfamiliar, it helps to think of Gladman’s work as engaging the imagination the way an architect approaches three-dimensional space with a two-dimensional blueprint. Her art is all about blurring or renegotiating where we draw the line—between writing and drawing, seeing and reading, between knowing and not-knowing, and, by extension, between social constructs. Through the poem-drawings in her newest collection from Wave Books, Plans for Sentences, this latest installment follows up the 2016 book of drawn-writings Prose Architectures as Gladman continues “using the space and time of drawing to explore more deeply the impact of blackness, futurity, and moving/erupting architectures on topographies of the sentence.” These will set something at the back of something and make it larger; what is smallest will be at the forefront but also below. These will bend, will contort. They will grain These sentences will dome the thought; they will make complex gestures and grain on a curve. They will set memories in overlapping modes of slope and cover, making hollows. (FIG 12. p. 25)"”