[New-Poetry] Poetics of Space

[David Graham]

Once, while taking a tour of Wright's Taliesin headquarters in Spring  
Green, WI, I was amused by the tour guide, a real Wright acolyte,  
struggling to explain some problem they had had with the roof.  There  
was a good bit of convolution and circumlocution going on, I thought.

"You mean the roof leaks?"  I asked, in perhaps too gleeful a tone.

His reply was a bit icy.  "Mr. Wright's vision," he said, "exceeded  
the materials available at the time."

Love that.  My vision often exceeds the materials, too!   Now, where  
are MY acolytes??



On May 26, 2006, at 8:32 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> this article reminds me of something Frank Lloyd Wright said,
> "If the roof doesn't leak, the architect hasn't done his job."...


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