Toby Altman
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This poem works with a drawing of the elevation of Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie Scott Store (1899-1906) in Chicago. (The building is also known as the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, the Sullivan Center, and, recently, Goth Target). Like many of Sullivan’s buildings, it is overwhelmingly ornamented. Yet as the eye travels up the façade, the details of that ornament begin to dissolve. One sees that—not what—it is.
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