The other day I found Brian Biggs’s Dear Julia on my shelf and realized that I had never read it…
Jamie Iredell on Stevens
I’m going to write about “Metaphor as Degeneration,” one of my favorite Stevens poems, from later in his career, from…
On “The Motive for Metaphor”
The Motive for Metaphor You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind…
James Robison on Stevens
1. To all readers of Stevens who have not already encountered Helen Vendler’s Words Chosen Out Of Desire and On Extended Wings:…
Helen Vendler on Stevens’s Anger and Desire
“The lapses and failures of idealization–especially the idealization of romantic love, forced on us by nature, culture, and, above all,…
Cooper Renner on Stevens
In the ’74-’75 school year, when I was a beginning teacher, I had a combined fifth-sixth grade math class in…