Jorge Méndez Blake
The Mountain That Took the Place of a
Poem (For Barcelona)
2017
Metal frame, marble stones
ø 300 x 120 cm
The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain is the title of a
poem by American writer Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).
The poem explores the relationship between language and
the physical world.
There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.