Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Prairie Style [In fall, the milkweed]
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I. Plan
[PLAN]
coping
[Floor Plan: How are you coping?]
[blueprint for brother]
[Floor Plan: I came to the class believing]
Course Notes [Like most human bodies]
Robie House
[Floor Plan: An engineer and a poet lie beneath a bridge]
Course Notes [A wing]
[Floor Plan: In a poetry workshop]
Course Notes [Organic Architecture]
[Floor Plan: A certain Wright house]
Prairie Style [The way this beach]
[Floor Plan: I found the Wright house gutted]
Course Notes [Preservation]
Over Speakerphone [Solution to the Ship of Theseus Paradox #1]
II. Elevation
[ELEVATION]
sistering
[Floor Plan: What does sistering mean to you?]
[Floor Plan: All myths have a body count]
Taliesin I
[Floor Plan: Taliesin destroyed by fire]
Whirling Arrow
[Floor Plan: Someone once told me]
Taliesin II
[Floor Plan: I am trying to trace my way]
[blueprint with labyrinth]
Taliesin III
[Floor Plan: When I visited Taliesin]
Sistering [Solution to the Ship of Theseus Paradox #2]
III. Perspective
[PERSPECTIVE]
heroic
[Floor Plan: Why are you writing him as a hero?]
Usonian Home
[Floor Plan: Wright’s buildings were beautiful]
[Floor Plan: In every myth]
[blueprint with ship]
[Floor Plan: I don’t want to write this as an elegy]
lintel
[Floor Plan: Here is another myth]
Fallingwater
[Floor Plan: It is easier for me to anger]
Memorial Day [Solution to the Ship of Theseus Paradox #3]
[Floor Plan: An architect, an engineer, and a poet]
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Sistering [last week the cottonwoods]
Notes and Acknowledgments