Plat

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In 1833, Joseph Smith drew a model for a heavenly city and called it the Plat of Zion. He said it was shown to him in a vision. If heaven will indeed one day be on earth, will it appear, as Joseph Smith argued, as a grid When and how does an imaginary or theoretical space come down to earth to construct the realPlatthinks through gender, death, and memory using the language and iconography of Mormon temples, warped and chopped and made strange. It questions the impulse to speculate: both about why a loved one chose to die, and about the land.Platconflates physical and abstract space to investigate, in part, how investments in naturalness warp and disguise all built environmentseverything from actual physical architecture to Christian ideas about gender and heaven, and other difficult utopias. At bottom, this book asks: whats the difference between a church and a death A dream and a memory A temple and a poem

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Lindsey Webbis the author of the chapbooksHouseandPerfumers Organ. Her writings have appeared inChicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, andLana Turner, among others. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a Clarence Snow Memorial Fellow and PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.Platis her first book.