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Introduction: Stevens and Germany, Stevens in (West) Germany Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew Steven Gross
This first of two special issues on "Stevens and Germany" addresses a neglected topic. Five contributions by Philip McGowan, Gül Bilge Han, James Dowthwaite, George Kovalenko, and Christoph Irmscher explore the broad contours of Wallace Stevens's relation to Germany, spanning from youthful identification to tempered wartime and postwar reflections. The contributions also highlight moments in the poet's
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Stevens, Germany, and the Churches Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Philip McGowan
Wallace Stevens's "Credences of Summer" (1947), in particular section IV's articulation of "the limits of reality," may be read as significantly German-influenced by connecting two distinct lines of inquiry: the poet's personal connection to Henry and Barbara Church, and his increased interest, from 1944, in genealogical researches on Pennsylvania. By 1947, Stevens's engagement with Germany had evolved
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"Blue and White Munich": Images of Germany in Stevensian Regeneration Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gül Bilge Han
Wallace Stevens's exploration of German cultural elements and figures, including his own heritage, functions as a creative source for his poetry and prose. While his early poetry romanticizes German culture and identity, Stevens grows skeptical in the mid-1930s and 1940s when his references to Germany increasingly inform his questioning of poetry's collective relevance and function. In several poems
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"Infinite Humble Things": Stevens and German Art of the Fin de Siècle Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 James Dowthwaite
In 1909, Wallace Stevens wrote letters expressing his enthusiasm for a German art exhibition primarily in the realist and impressionist traditions, though there was some symbolist representation. Although Stevens seems not to have mentioned the artworks nor the artists again, this early attraction was reflective of enduring aspects of his poetry, particularly the impressionist aspects of his style
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"The Heart's Residuum": Adorno's Metaphysical Experience in Stevens's "Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas" Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 George Kovalenko
Although Wallace Stevens and Theodor W. Adorno respond in distinct ways to the Holocaust, their works have a theoretical affinity. In 1940, Stevens writes a poem that, while it cannot register the unfathomable catastrophe, does speculate about the fate of the imagination in a world turned into an enormous camp through total war. Adorno, who most famously responds in his dictum against poetry after
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Stevens's "Peter Quince at the Clavier" and the Pleasures of Merely Going Round Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Christoph Irmscher
The author links a critical journey through "Peter Quince at the Clavier" with his own academic journey since completing, over thirty years ago in Germany, a dissertation that dealt with Wallace Stevens's poetry. A foray into artistic treatments of the "Susanna and the Elders" theme (from Albrecht Altdorfer to Thomas Hart Benton) highlights the extent to which Stevens explores, creatively responds
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The Snake in the Grass Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Karen Petersen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Snake in the Grass Karen Petersen First there was the delicate snakeskin,like tissue paper, a foot long and ghostly white.Touch it and it crumbles, a tokenof a potential deadly resurrection,fittingly done in moonlight,a warning sign of things to come. A sudden revelation in the morning's grassthe snakeskin betrays the snake,quiet,
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For The Moment, at Least Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jacque Vaught Brogan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: For The Moment, at Least Jacque Vaught Brogan Notre Dame October 12–13, 2023 The Poem is mad. In fact, it almost refused to meetThis year. But it showed up today, saying, "I don't want to talk about it.Any of it. At all. Even if it is trueThat your 'unprecedented' wildfires have 'reversedSeven years' progress in cleaning our air,' "it
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Third Study in Blue Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Daniel Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Third Study in Blue Daniel Schwartz The blue freak rides in his blue train for days, zippingunzipping, he howls at how the freakish earthkeeps warm, thinking the landis a staircase, and through its balustrade, the towns appearlike shy children threading themselves, thingsthe blue trees remember. He goes from purple Mainewhere rocks grow
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The Poems of Our Desert Climate Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 J. Novalis Wolfe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Poems of Our Desert Climate J. Novalis Wolfe I Snowmelt lapping tips of "Pink Flame"Nandina beside an open window,Pink petals dripping over berries,Some frozen sound of watery silenceIn a cold Chihuahuan desert. Our neighborhood trash truck drove byIn the morning with distant pinkish flameIn a watery snow beside sky islandMountains:
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Moodus Noises Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 David Epstein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Moodus Noises David Epstein Machemoodus, Native American term meaning "the great noise of the earth"; thus, the town named Moodus, Connecticut, near where a geological feature has given rise to spontaneous chthonic sounds. All solutions have long since taken their graves.An elemental howl in the dark: behind your spectral dam,angst accumulates
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The Teacher, and: The Old Argentine Wandering Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ethan Yan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Teacher, and: The Old Argentine Wandering Ethan Yan The Teacher (for Dr. Kraft) Aquinas taught the things of the worldThrough the things of the sky and the blueInfinity of his reason, but not tangling Like the river at the end of the mindThat taught the things of the skyThrough the apparitions of the sky. And one must imagine that
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Current Bibliography Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Lisa Goldfarb, Florian Gargaillo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Current Bibliography Lisa Goldfarb and Florian Gargaillo Lisa Goldfarb Gallatin School, New York University Florian Gargaillo Austin Peay State University Books Gould, Thomas, and Ian Tan, editors. Wallace Stevens in Theory. Liverpool UP, 2023. Google Scholar Hart, Kevin. Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation: The Gifford Lectures
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Still Whipping Hullabaloos among Spheres Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Bart Eeckhout, Florian Gargaillo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Still Whipping Hullabaloos among Spheres Bart Eeckhout and Florian Gargaillo Allow,Therefore, that in the planetary sceneYour disaffected flagellants, well-stuffed,Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade,Proud of such novelties of the sublime,Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk,May, merely may, madame, whip from themselvesA jovial hullabaloo
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Nuances on a Theme by Stevens, Things Off Season, and: Seven Scenes of Riverdale, New York, and: Shabbos Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Rachel Aviva Burns
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nuances on a Theme by Stevens, Things Off Season, and: Seven Scenes of Riverdale, New York, and: Shabbos Rachel Aviva Burns Nuances on a Theme by Stevens The wind speeds her,Blowing upon her handsAnd watery back.She touches the clouds, where she goesIn the circle of her traverse of the sea. I Wherever she goes,she touches the cloudsand
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Harmonium through the Years Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Lisa Goldfarb
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Harmonium through the Years Lisa Goldfarb A FEW MONTHS AGO, around the time when the Wallace Stevens Society decided to organize an American Literature Association panel on the centenary of Stevens’s 1923 publication of Harmonium, I had a dream about the poet. I do not often remember my dreams, but this one remains vivid in my memory.
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Stevens as Modernist: The Intensities of Harmonium Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Charles Altieri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stevens as Modernist: The Intensities of Harmonium Charles Altieri FOR THIS CELEBRATION of Harmonium’s centenary, my central concern is to provide an account of how I see crucial aspects of the book as establishing the most intelligent and possibly the most intensely moving of the founding poetic texts in American modernism. I mean by
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Stevens's Soil: Intelligence, Conceptual Affordances, and the Genius Beyond Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Andrew Osborn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stevens’s Soil: Intelligence, Conceptual Affordances, and the Genius Beyond Andrew Osborn HEARKENING BACK to Harmonium at a hundred, one comes to “The Comedian” at the numeral C. Although the long poem’s transatlantic odyssey has now circled the sun a century, its bounds remain two notes-to-self: “man is the intelligence of his soil” and
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"A Sort of Buoy": Stevens, Plato, and Benjamin Jowett Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jonathan Ivry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “A Sort of Buoy”: Stevens, Plato, and Benjamin Jowett Jonathan Ivry ON JULY 4, 1900, shortly after moving to New York City to begin his short-lived career as a journalist, the twenty-year-old Wallace Stevens wrote in his journal, “I am going to get a set of [Jowett’s] Plato as soon as I can afford it and use that as a sort of buoy” (L
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Harmonium in a Time of War: Stevens and Contemporary Ukrainian Poets Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Kathryn Mudgett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Harmonium in a Time of War: Stevens and Contemporary Ukrainian Poets Kathryn Mudgett You do not know the things that are taught by him who falls. I do know. —Eugène Lemercier, letter of October 15, 1914 IntroductIon: RegardIng the PaIn of Others IS IT POSSIBLE to convey the experience of war to others through language? Those of us who
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A Graduate Seminar Roundtable: Introduction Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Douglas Mao
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Graduate Seminar Roundtable: Introduction Douglas Mao IN FALL 2022, I taught a graduate seminar at Johns Hopkins called “1922 and Its Neighbors.” The course aimed to situate the most famous works of English-language modernism’s annus mirabilis—Ulysses, The Waste Land, Jacob’s Room—among other texts published between 1920 and 1924 (some
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The Place of the Neighbor in Harmonium Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Julia Houser, Nora Pehrson, Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Place of the Neighbor in Harmonium Julia Houser, Nora Pehrson, and Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein IN A 1906 JOURNAL entry, the twenty-six-year-old Wallace Stevens expressed a sentiment that would go on to become something of a commonplace in his reception both as a poet and as a literary personality: “I detest ‘company’” (L 89). But if
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Poetic Models of History and Time in Harmonium Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Jonah Shallit, Jungmin Yoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetic Models of History and Time in Harmonium Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Jonah Shallit, and Jungmin Yoo IN HARMONIUM, Wallace Stevens builds poetic models of history and time, juxtaposing quotidian and historical chronologies to capture the interrelations between ephemeral moments and grand narratives. Stevens thinks historically while remaining
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Black Lightning Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Michael Gessner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Black Lightning Michael Gessner Wild root blinkingin a pallid night, what was givenfrom a dimension aside all other dimensions,given from an errant donor, an impression that leavesthe mind a notion. [End Page 242] Michael Gessner Oro Valley, Arizona Copyright © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press ...
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Birds and Trees Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Burt Kimmelman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Birds and Trees Burt Kimmelman I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendoes,The blackbird whistlingOr just after. —Wallace Stevens Start of Spring Naked branchesreaching intoa gray sky, Ihear a bird call across our smallvalley, the samecall from somewhereelse, once again. Mid-April Evening Still house
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Wallace Stevens's Open House Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Marilyn E. Johnston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Wallace Stevens’s Open House Marilyn E. Johnston I hover in that quaint vestibule shelteringyour daily passage to and from the stone city.The entrance runs to a spaciousness of carpetup curving stairs and through well-haunted rooms I climb to the front second-floor landingwhere you hung a piano in airfor your daughter to play. Sneak a
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Regards to Mrs. Church, and: Remember Me to Mrs. Church Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Rick Joines
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Regards to Mrs. Church, and: Remember Me to Mrs. Church Rick Joines Regards to Mrs. Church The things at flower shows that interest me most are precisely the things that one never sees in gardens. —Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, March 25, 1941 What is New York? Buying hats, seeing shows.Bookstores, yes, and the tedious seekingfor what
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Saw Palmetto Flowers Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Rosangela Batista
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Saw Palmetto Flowers Rosangela Batista for Wallace Stevens Can you imagine yourself hereon the banks of a hundred milesof lagoon framedby dwarf palmsby the relentless fanningscent of baby powder? Do you know that this fragrancecomes from a mélange of violetjasmine and white musk? Do you know that aromas triggerclumps of memories? Are notthe
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Some Surreptitious Sonnet Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jane Blanchard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Some Surreptitious Sonnet Jane Blanchard after a journal entry by Wallace Stevens Back in the office after days elsewhere,I find it very hard to concentrateOn corporate reports I must updateFor others who may be less laissez-faire.Adjusting, even swiveling my chair,Then sipping Starbucks at a steady rate,I focus on the work I could createIf
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An Old Piano Tuner in Vienna, and: Wallace Stevens on His Way to Work Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 William Virgil Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Old Piano Tuner in Vienna, and: Wallace Stevens on His Way to Work William Virgil Davis An Old Piano Tuner in Vienna I saw a report the other day that only thirty pianos had been sold in Austria last year. —Wallace Stevens Music is never old, as he’sbecome, listening the yearsaway, trying to get each notejust right, put everything inorder
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Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth by John Koethe (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 John Gibson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth by John Koethe John Gibson Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth. By John Koethe. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. John Koethe is rare among philosophers. He is an accomplished poet who has also produced excellent work on issues to do
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The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition by Margaret H. Freeman (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Rick Joines
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition by Margaret H. Freeman Rick Joines The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition. By Margaret H. Freeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Borrowing her title from Wallace Stevens’s “The Rock,” Margaret H. Freeman gives us a fascinating exploration of how poetry “enables
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In Memoriam Robert Buttel (1923–2023) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Peter Hanchak, John N. Serio, Milton J. Bates, George S. Lensing
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In Memoriam Robert Buttel (1923–2023) Peter Hanchak, John N. Serio, Milton J. Bates, and George S. Lensing Editorial note: Our Editorial Board Member Robert Buttel passed away on April 20, 2023, at the age of ninety-nine, at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. Bob had been the longest-serving Board Member of this journal: he started
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News and Comments Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Bart Eeckhout, Glen MacLeod
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: News and Comments Bart Eeckhout and Glen MacLeod The eleventh John N. Serio Award for the Best Article Published in The Wallace Stevens Journal was awarded to Juliette Utard for her contribution entitled “Epistolary Stevens” (Spring 2021). The award was judged by a committee of three Editorial Board Members (Tony Sharpe, Rachel Malkin
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Corrections to the Library of America Edition of Stevens's Poetry Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 John N. Serio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Corrections to the Library of America Edition of Stevens’s Poetry John N. Serio WALLACE STEVENS was lucky to have Alfred A. Knopf as his publisher. Despite the limited sales of Harmonium in 1923 and the early reviews labeling Stevens as an aesthete and a dandy, Knopf reissued Harmonium in a slightly expanded edition in 1931.1 Then, starting
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The Poem as Work on Paper: The Illustrated Esthétique du Mal Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Thomas Gould
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Poem as Work on Paper: The Illustrated Esthétique du Mal Thomas Gould LIKE OTHER LONG POEMS by Wallace Stevens, the composition of his wartime poem “Esthétique du Mal” was partly shaped by the dimensions of the legal notepad sheets on which it was drafted. When critics address the genesis of Stevens’s poems, they reflexively—and rightly—recall
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As If in a Book: Everyday Reading in Stevens Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Nora Pehrson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: As If in a Book: Everyday Reading in Stevens Nora Pehrson When I complain of the “bareness”—I have in mind, very often, the effect of order and regularity, the effect of moving in a groove. . . . But books make up. They shatter the groove, as far as the mind is concerned. They are like so many fantastic lights filling plain darkness with
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"Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself": Stevens and Santayana Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Jerry Griswold
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself”: Stevens and Santayana Jerry Griswold SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I noticed striking resemblances between George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) and Wallace Stevens’s The Rock, the poet’s last “book” of poems which appears in his Collected Poems (1954). The resemblances were so extensive
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S Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Henry Weinfield
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: S Henry Weinfield S S is the Serpent in sound, sight, and sign.S is its hiss, its wandering, wavering lineCurving and then recurving—serpentine. The Semites called it shin and sometimes sin.(Because of them we’re in the shape we’re in.)Tooth is its meaning and its origin. Sharper than all things is the Serpent’s tooth.This adage is best
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An Invitation to the Idea of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Brenda Yates
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Invitation to the Idea of Wallace Stevens Brenda Yates From Key West, over the Gulf Stream and turquoise sea,come flying over harbor masts and boats that song has changed and the flat horizon rising like mountains in the mindsof Ramon and me, please come flying— bring Tennessee’s wild green hills, its secretivehollows and valleys sprawling
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cows at night Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Lloyd Jacobs
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: cows at night Lloyd Jacobs it is of little use to prove or disprovethe reality of an external worldexcept to know which valise to take ancients buried arms and provisionsfor the journey, postured the sojournerfor combat or for the hunt or for love the dream went on all my eighty yearsonce more I tried to shake free of itbut winding sheets
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Two Anecdotes of Pie Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Donald Platt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Two Anecdotes of Pie Donald Platt I Wallace Stevens lovedpie. His neighbor brought him a chocolatesilk pie, dark as a starless night. “What do youcall this pie?” he asked, he who had “placed a jarin Tennessee.” She smiled and replied,“Heavenly Pie.” That jar had tamed “the slovenlywilderness” around him. “Well,” he said,raising a piece
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The Art of Sinking Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Dan Coyle
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Art of Sinking Dan Coyle The art of sinking in poetry is knownto but a few. A quick run-throughwill not suffice. Consider the woman in lampshade tunic and Merry Widow hatsprinting to a life boat. She will not get it.Nor will the English Major from the Royal Dragoons, his epaulets askew and cockedhat a-kilter. He cannot tame the tumult
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Slow Evening Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Bibhu Padhi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Slow Evening Bibhu Padhi The sun is reluctant to leave us.It stays on in the sky, without reason.My mind is troubled by a new anxiety. The pills do not work anymore;they are dark with dysfunction.I wait for everything to end soon. The evening stays on. I have no strengthto question anybody about the reason, nodesire to be myself, my decrepit
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Blue as an Abstraction of Carmel Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Robert Dorsett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Blue as an Abstraction of Carmel Robert Dorsett A man who looked for the worldbeneath the blue, without blue . . . —Wallace Stevens The blue of the sea, the shadowsthat fall beneath the skirts of water,the larkspur, lupine of the valleys,gnat-like flocks of thyme.The blue gas jets of rosemary,the lichen upon the sea break boulders,fly
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The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Langdon Hammer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb Langdon Hammer The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens. By Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. If a poem is like a picture, it is like an object, with the manifest presence of a thing. To say a poem is like music is
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Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity by Ian Tan (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Krzysztof Ziarek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity by Ian Tan Krzysztof Ziarek Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity. By Ian Tan. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Ian Tan’s book is the first extended study of Wallace Stevens devoted almost entirely to the conversation
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Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu Poetry in a Global Age. By Jahan Ramazani. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. If poetry has historically been seen as a provincial, local, or national genre, then Jahan Ramazani’s most recent book, Poetry in a Global Age, adds to an emergent discourse
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Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment by Mark Sandy (review) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-03 David J. Langston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment by Mark Sandy David J. Langston Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment. By Mark Sandy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. In Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism,
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Introduction "The Life of the World" Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Bart Eeckhout, Lisa Goldfarb, Gül Bilge Han
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction “The Life of the World” Bart Eeckhout, Lisa Goldfarb, and Gül Bilge Han In the end, in the whole psychology, the self,The town, the weather, in a casual litter,Together, said words of the world are the life of the world. —Wallace Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” THIS IS THE SECOND HALF of the twelve contributions
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"The World in a Verse": Stevens, World History, and Global Modernisms Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Gül Bilge Han
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “The World in a Verse”: Stevens, World History, and Global Modernisms Gül Bilge Han I. Introduction IN HIS 1942 ESSAY “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words,” Wallace Stevens commented on the situation of the modern subject in a global context in the following way: It is not only that there are more of us and that we are actually close
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Stevens and the Poetics of Displacement Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Bonnie Costello
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stevens and the Poetics of Displacement Bonnie Costello MY FOCUS in this contribution adds another element to the mosaic of global figures in Wallace Stevens’s poetry: the figure of displacement. By displacement I mean the moving of something or someone from its place to another—or the condition of having been moved; and secondarily, the
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Stevens and the United Nations of Literature Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Anna Jamieson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stevens and the United Nations of Literature Anna Jamieson IN A 1939 INTERVIEW in the Partisan Review, Wallace Stevens insisted that “war is a military state of affairs, not a literary one” (CPP 805). Such a remark is hardly surprising coming from a man who, throughout his career, was at times lauded, at times chided, for his supposedly
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Window-Gazing and World-Making in Stevens and Robert Creeley Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Thomas Gould
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Window-Gazing and World-Making in Stevens and Robert Creeley Thomas Gould CRITICAL CLAIMS MADE on behalf of the worldliness of Wallace Stevens’s poetry risk either passing over the poet’s lifelong rootedness in the United States—he never left North America—or exaggerating it to the point of banality. Of course, the study of world literature
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"As if Nothingness Contained a Métier": Foreignness, Nothingness, and World-Making in Stevens Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Sarah Bouttier
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “As if Nothingness Contained a Métier”: Foreignness, Nothingness, and World-Making in Stevens Sarah Bouttier WE SHOULD NOT, Helen Vendler says, trust Wallace Stevens’s beginnings, but look rather for the “emotional heart” of a lyric in the middle of the poem (Words 44). Titles such as “Le Monocle de Mon Oncle” should indeed not be trusted—they
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Roaming through World Literature: Shelley's Wind, Stevens's Blackbird, Coetzee's Hugo Claus, and the Desire for Poetic Transformation Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Bart Eeckhout
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Roaming through World Literature: Shelley’s Wind, Stevens’s Blackbird, Coetzee’s Hugo Claus, and the Desire for Poetic Transformation Bart Eeckhout When the blackbird flew out of sight,It marked the edgeOf one of many circles. —Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” O could you not learnto swim you idiotsinging yourselfaboard
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Is There a Poem That Never Reaches Words, and: And Sends Us, Winged by an Unconscious Will by Rob Baxter Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Rob Baxter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Is There a Poem That Never Reaches Words, and: And Sends Us, Winged by an Unconscious Will by Rob Baxter Rob Baxter Is There a Poem That Never Reaches Words And does the bee, new-come in sterilerepetition, swarm in inconstancy nownever enough to change a universal causeor alter a seraph’s thoughts of universalplace? And how does Du Puy
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Gridded Window Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Eli Goldblatt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gridded Window Eli Goldblatt I look out the gridded window—worldthru glass & screen—a dark circle underthat stand of pines & yet there’s spottysnow beneath the dogwood holdingits red leaves despite the freeze. Allwords among the things we touch,all memory covered in light snow, you walk far from me today, perhaps onour street. Could we
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Exhuman Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Alfred Corn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Exhuman Alfred Corn Welcome, landscapes clean of us,vistas clear of irksome construction—done henceforward with rustingincentives based on investment,deed, control, calculation. Unverbed expanse of sky, water,forest, granite outcrop, mountaineddistances, migration’s fledged arrow.Earthly nature unearthed, at ease,not posing, contoured
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Building Dwelling Dying: (eulogy for Griff) Wallace Stevens Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-03 William Boelhower
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Building Dwelling Dying(eulogy for Griff) William Boelhower Years of effortwent into planning and puttingup this personal balance ofwall and multiple geometries ofglass so that the light will evenarrive through the windowed planes ofroof from a suddenly constantoutside which comes tiltingin at every angle ofday and ever dawningnight nearing