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Tag Archives: Wallace Stevens
On Talk of Happiness
Soon, very soon, the follow-up to Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji will be released by S4N Books. A lot has happened since I started writing these little songs almost ten years ago, when the aim, like I understand the aim … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Adam Penna, Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji, long poems, Poems, Poetry, psalms, publication, publications, S4N Books, Sequences of Poems, Talk of Happiness, Wallace Stevens
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This Is Just a Place
for Steve, in memoriam After you divorced, ten years passed before We saw each other and, By that time, ruin found me too I can’t begin to tell the story It doesn’t matter now. Let it suffice That we were … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Tagged A.R. Ammons, Harmonium, in memoriam, Max Stabelin, Poems, Poetry, poets, Wallace Stevens
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On the Novel: The Continuing Adventures…
I have been meaning to write something on my progress here for a few months, but for some reason I’m having a difficult time formulating what it is exactly I want to say. Not that I usually know what I’m … Continue reading
Posted in On the Novel
Tagged Freud, Harold Bloom, Poems, Poetry, Rilke, Shakespeare, The Novel, the writing process, Wallace Stevens, Writing
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On Poetic Development*
Poets, perhaps unlike poems, are born not made, but they aren’t born in the womb so much as they are born in the world–maybe even as the result of the world. Stevens often referred to the world as the mother, … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged animal fact, Christianity, D.H. Lawrence, flesh and blood, Jesus, pietas, Poetry, poets, Robinson Jeffers, The Lord's Prayer, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman
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On an “Original Relation to the Universe”
“Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?” –from Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson On a short walk this morning†, I noticed that ghostly day-moon above me and began to think of those wonderful Stevens’ poems, where … Continue reading
Posted in Choosings & Leavings
Tagged Emerson, God, moon, nature, nature ralph waldo emerson, poets, ralph waldo emerson, universe, walking, walks, Wallace Stevens, zucchini, zucchini flowers
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On Becoming a Poet
I’ve been meaning for weeks now to write a post here about becoming a poet and never was the urge more strongly felt than after reading a poem by Edward Thomas two weeks ago. The poem, called “Adlestrop,” ends like this: … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Borges, consciousness, Edward Thomas, literature, Poems, Poetry, poets, religion, Robert Frost, spirituality, Wallace Stevens, William Blake, Writing
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Revising Revision
A few years ago I wrote a long essay called “Why Poetry Doesn’t Matter.” I only remember now the gist of that argument. And the conclusion went something like this. When considering the uses of poetry, we ought not to … Continue reading
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