The following is taken from White’s excellent book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003 HarperCollins) (reprinted…
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…
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…