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Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Selected Poems Edited by John N. Serio ALFRED A. KNOPF New York 2009 Contents Introduction xi FROM Harmonium (1923, 1931) EARTHY ANECDOTE 3 THE PALTRY NUDE STARTS ON A SPRING VOYAGE \ THE PLOT AGAINST THE GIANT 5 DOMINATION OF BLACK 6 THE SNOW MAN . J LE MONOCLE DE MON ONCLE 8 NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS 13 PLOUGHING ON SUNDAY I4 CY EST POURTRAICTE, MADAME STE URSULE, ET LES UNZE MILLE VIERGES 15 THE DOCTOR OF GENEVA l6 THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C IJ FROM THE MISERY OF DON JOOST 34 ANECDOTE OF MEN BY THE THOUSAND 35 FLORAL DECORATIONS FOR BANANAS 36 A HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN 37 BANAL SOJOURN 38 THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM 39 TEA AT THE PALAZ OF HOON 4O DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK 41 SUNDAY MORNING 42 SIX SIGNIFICANT LANDSCAPES 46 BANTAMS IN PINE-WOODS 48 ANECDOTE OF THE JAR 49 FROGS EAT BUTTERFLIES. SNAKES EAT FROGS. HOGS EAT SNAKES. MEN EAT HOGS 5O LIFE IS MOTION 51 GUBBINAL 52 TO THE ONE OF FICTIVE MUSIC 53 PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER 55 THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD 58 THE MAN WHOSE PHARYNX WAS BAD 6l THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER 62 SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS 63 FROM Ideas of Order (1936) FAREWELL TO FLORIDA 67 SAILING AFTER LUNCH 69 SAD STRAINS OF A GAY WALTZ 7° HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO 72 WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU 73 THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST 74 THE AMERICAN SUBLIME 76 MOZART, I935 77 THE SUN THIS MARCH 78 BOTANIST ON ALP (NO. i) 79 BOTANIST ON ALP (NO. 2) 80 EVENING WITHOUT ANGELS 8l RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE 83 THE READER 84 ANGLAIS MORT A FLORENCE 85 THE PLEASURES OF MERELY CIRCULATING 86 A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO 87 AUTUMN REFRAIN 88 GALLANT CHATEAU 89 FROM The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems (1937) THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR 90 THE MEN THAT ARE FALLING 109 FROM Parts of a World (1942) POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE in THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE 112 STUDY OF TWO PEARS "3 THE GLASS OF WATER "5 ADD THIS TO RHETORIC 116 THE MAN ON THE DUMP 117 ON THE ROAD HOME "9 THE LATEST FREED MAN 120 THE DWARF 121 A RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS 122 GIRL IN A NIGHTGOWN 123 CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS 124 POEM WRITTEN AT MORNING 126 THE COMMON LIFE 127 THE SENSE OF THE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAN 128 A DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA 129 OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT 130 1 BOUQUET OF BELLE SCAVOIR J3 YELLOW AFTERNOON 133 MARTIAL CADENZA 134 OF MODERN POETRY 135 ARRIVAL AT THE WALDORF 136 LANDSCAPE WITH BOAT 137 ON THE ADEQUACY OF LANDSCAPE 139 WOMAN LOOKING AT A VASE OF FLOWERS I4O THE WELL DRESSED MAN WITH A BEARD I4I OF BRIGHT & BLUE BIRDS & THE GALA SUN I42 MRS. ALFRED URUGUAY 143 ASIDES ON THE OBOE I45 METAMORPHOSIS I47 CONTRARY THESES (i) I48 PHOSPHOR READING BY HIS OWN LIGHT I49 CONTRARY THESES (ll) I5O FROM Transport to Summer (1947) GOD IS GOOD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT I5I THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR I52 NO POSSUM, NO SOP, NO TATERS I53 SO-AND-SO RECLINING ON HER COUCH I54 SOMNAMBULISMA I55 CRUDE FOYER I56 THE CREATIONS OF SOUND 157 HOLIDAY IN REALITY I58 ESTHETIQUE DU MAL l6o THE BED OF OLD JOHN ZELLER 172 LESS AND LESS HUMAN, O SAVAGE SPIRIT 173 FLYER'S FALL 174 DEBRIS OF LIFE AND MIND I75 DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE I76 LATE HYMN FROM THE MYRRH-MOUNTAIN 183 MAN CARRYING THING 184 CHAOS IN MOTION AND NOT IN MOTION 185 THE HOUSE WAS QUIET AND THE WORLD WAS CALM L86 BURGHERS OF PETTY DEATH 187 THE RED FERN l88 THE DOVE IN THE BELLY 189 CREDENCES OF SUMMER igO NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION I95 FROM The Auroras of Autumn (1950) THE AURORAS OF AUTUMN 221 PAGE FROM A TALE 23I LARGE RED MAN READING 233 THIS SOLITUDE OF CATARACTS 234 THE BEGINNING 235 THE COUNTRYMAN 236 THE ULTIMATE POEM IS ABSTRACT 237 BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT 238 A PRIMITIVE LIKE AN ORB 239 THE WOMAN IN SUNSHINE 243 WORLD WITHOUT PECULIARITY 244 PUELLA PARVULA 245 WHAT WE SEE IS WHAT WE THINK 246 QUESTIONS ARE REMARKS 247 AN ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN 248 ANGEL SURROUNDED BY PAYSANS 272 FROM "Three Academic Pieces" IN The Necessary Angel (1951) SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER 273 FROM THE SECTION The Rock IN The Collected Poems (1954) THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS 277 LEBENSWEISHEITSPIELEREI 278 THE HERMITAGE AT THE CENTER 279 THE GREEN PLANT 280 MADAME LA FLEURIE 28l TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME 282 VACANCY IN THE PARK 285 THE POEM THAT TOOK THE PLACE OF A MOUNTAIN 286 TWO ILLUSTRATIONS THAT THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT 287 PROLOGUES TO WHAT IS POSSIBLE 289 SONG OF FIXED ACCORD 29I THE WORLD AS MEDITATION 2g2 LONG AND SLUGGISH LINES 293 A QUIET NORMAL LIFE 294 FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR 295 THE ROCK 296 ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE 300 THE PLANET ON THE TABLE 302 THE RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT 3O3 NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF 304 FROM Opus Posthumous (1957, 1989) AS YOU LEAVE THE ROOM 3O5 THE SICK MAN 306 THE COURSE OF A PARTICULAR 3O7 THE DOVE IN SPRING 308 FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR 3O9 A CHILD ASLEEP IN ITS OWN LIFE 3IO TWO LETTERS 3II REALITY IS AN ACTIVITY OF THE MOST AUGUST IMAGINATION 313 LOCAL OBJECTS 314 ARTIFICIAL POPULATIONS 3I5 A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES 316 JULY MOUNTAIN 317 OF MERE BEING 318 Short Chronology 319 Suggestions for Further Reading 323 Index of Titles 325.
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