“You want hand-chiseled basalt for the plunge pool coping? That’s triple the cost of precast,” he said.

Mr. Hart framed the first page of the PDF and hung it in the resort’s boardroom. Below it, he had engraved Lena’s final line from the introduction: “Standards are not the enemy of poetry. They are the rhyme scheme that lets the meaning shine.”

“Where’s the original drawing?” the carpenter asked.