{"id":10515,"date":"2013-12-19T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2014-01-13T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:37:29","slug":"nelson-algren-on-frank-lloyd-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/12\/nelson-algren-on-frank-lloyd-wright.html","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Algren on Frank Lloyd Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>This is Algren reading his poem &#8220;On the Heart It Don&#8217;t Matter How You Spell It.&#8221;<\/center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/125589264&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center>It&#8217;s from a 1972 recording.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>Frank Lloyd Wright was the saint of American architecture.<br \/>\nHe liked steel buildings, stone buildings, tall buildings, low buildings.<br \/>\nHe liked new buildings and old buildings.<br \/>\nHe like dry buildings and damp buildings.<br \/>\nHe liked buildings on mountaintops.<br \/>\nHe liked  buildings on deserts.<br \/>\nHe liked buildings broken by suffering<br \/>\nAnd buildings that were happy from morning till night.<br \/>\nHe even liked buildings built on top of other buildings.<br \/>\nFrank Lloyd Wright sure liked buildings.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>What Frank Lloyd Wright thought made a city enduring was the height and the heft and the light and the depth of its buildings. He took it for granted that on the day his dream of a building a mile high could be linked with a triple-deck expressway making righthand turns without a stoplight into infinity his name would be remembered forever. What Mr. Wright forgot was that a village ragged tents pitched on the open prairie may be a city more enduring than a million-windowed metropolis rising a mile high on foundations a mile deep in which nobody knows who he is. <\/p>\n<p><center>Mr. Wright overlooked one small detail:<br \/>\nThat a name carved on a cornerstone may be less enduring<br \/>\nThan a secret remembrance inscribed on the heart.<br \/>\nMr. Wright forgot that on the heart it don\u2019t matter how you spell it.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Algren reading his poem &#8220;On the Heart It Don&#8217;t Matter How You Spell It.&#8221; It&#8217;s from a 1972 recording. Frank Lloyd Wright was the saint of American architecture. He liked steel buildings, stone buildings, tall buildings, low buildings. He liked new buildings and old buildings. He like dry buildings and damp buildings. 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