Born inside a vulnerable brutalism In Discipline Park, Toby Altman documents the wounds of the demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital. | ✍️ Maxwell Rabb
his second full-length poetry collection, Altman choreographs a dynamic dance between sentimentality and brutalism by documenting the wounds of architecture—fixating on his birthplace: Chicago’s demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital. “Wagering that concrete or plywood might serve as the entrails of the world,” he shapes a monolithic poetry inspired by the imposing structures of midcentury brutalism.
But Altman’s fascination with brutalist functionality does not lend itself to a conventional straightforwardness. Instead, he presents images of the Prentice Women’s Hospital that are skillfully recontextualized. His ability to reenvision our perception of architecture echoes surrealist artist Alexander Rodchenko’s photographs of transmission towers.
Near the beginning of the book, Altman asks us to, “Imagine another city, in which pain has been rigorously segregated from the population. This city is architecture without loneliness, architecture without need.” In his variations, Altman adorns brutalism with the raw material he extracts from our collective and his wounds. And the images parsed throughout the collection emerge renewed with every page.
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