It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor…
On Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks
If one ever wondered what happened to the guys in high school who sat around reading philosophy and fancying posey, From…
Start Suffering
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you…
A Tale of Two ‘Ten/10’s’ (Women as Men’s Salvation)
You miserable, little son of a bitch – 10 – Julie Andrews, after seeing her boyfriend walking around naked with…
“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)
Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain…
Robert Lopez poem on Frost and Stevens
Waiting For the Day’s Mail Waiting for the day’s mail I occupy myself with minutia
W.F. Lantry on Visiting Stevens
VISITING STEVENS My world is real, but it is not yours. In mine, small electric devices are engraved with lines…
Three poems: Two after “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, One on Pilgrimage
Three wonderful writers sent in poems–two after one of Stevens’s most popular and most influential poems, “Thirteen Ways of Looking…
Douglas Manson on Wallace Stevens
Logging In on Wallace Stevens On this winter-tilting, groggy morning, with all its torn shreds and twisted sheets of motivation,…
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…