By: Waring Cuney

“The Coliseum tells a story / The Woolworth Building may repeat.”

By: Frank L. Pollock

“The Platte Building is tuned to B flat.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“They are coming to the end of their tether, you see.”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“God the Father is a dynamo…”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy…”

By: Frank L. Pollock

It seemed impossible that the fabric could endure longer.

By: Vasilisk Gnedov

…

By: Zinaida Gippius

“Dim is the weft that mates them…”

By: Charles Bertram Johnson

“His fine spun dreams / Are nebulæ of thought…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“We are the inevitable…”

By: Frank L. Pollock

The oscillation of the building was really alarming.

By: Hermann Hesse

“Whole kingdoms, sunk into ruin…”

By: HILOBROW

Published today by the MIT Press!

By: HILOBROW

Published today by the MIT Press!

By: Harriet Monroe

“The abysmal fires, grated and chained and bound…”