The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens ebook
ISBN: 0679726691, 9780394403304
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I first came across A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts in a second-hand edition of Wallace Stevens' selected poems that I bought at university. This year, he returned and delighted the audience with a reading of two poems by Wallace Stevens: “The Planet on The Table“ and “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts.” Find more poetry in our collection of Free Audio Books. And of course, the embedding of references to other poems, philosophers, artists, the science of the day, is precisely what reading people like Stevens and Eliot and Pound, and studying literature generally, taught me to do. Wallace Stevens - The Common Life [Poem] Today is the birthday of the late poet Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America) List Price: $40.00 ISBN13: 9781883011451 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! Along with translating, he imitates, with poems “after” Fernando Pessoa, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Wordsworth, and others. / II / I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds. Stevens's “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” is one of the first poems I ever memorized. I do not know much about Stevens. I / Among twenty snowy mountains, / The only moving thing / Was the eye of the blackbird. But for a poet who pushes, Bernstein looks backwards in much of this collection. / III / The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. I must confess I rarely know what Stevens is talking about. So this was the weapon I took up against I'm blending, in these lines, “The Palm at the End of the Mind” (the title of my tattered collection of his work) and “The Necessary Angel,” his singular book of essays. My guide to one of the most curious poems by Wallace Stevens, and 'proceeding from' there, to Stevens' poetry in general. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Wallace Stevens was the second of five children of a lawyer father and a mother who had been a former schoolteacher. It's also one of the first poems that ever made me really angry. From: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Vintage, 1990.