The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394403304 (0394403304)
Publish date: June 27th 1954
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Philosophy,
Collections,
College,
Modern,
Poetry
What does it even mean to say I have read a book of poems? Where is the boundary between being able to say "I have read them" and "I am reading them"? How long should the book rest on a table before passing from "I am reading" to "I have read"? Is my entire collection of poetry a pile of inert pape...
For Easter. A friend told me this is maybe the best poem in the English language, quoting bits of it as we were driving along. Had to look it up. Here it is.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)Sunday Morning 1Complacencies of the peignoir, and lateCoffee and oranges in a sunny chair,And the green freedom ...
15 years ago
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