It's not enough to sit in that garret Jan 27, 2008
We're reassured that Chekhov and William Carlos Williams were physicians, that Wallace Stevens sold insurance and was married to a woman who would only talk about sewing and recipes. We're reassured by the knowledge that Art Themen, one of our most expressive saxophonists, climbed on to the stand having spent the afternoon reconstructing the hip of a 10-year-old girl. (Guardian Unlimited)
Andrew O'Hagan: The people's poet Jan 26, 2008
It was the American poet Wallace Stevens who said that the open-minded reading of poetry helps you to live your life, and in Burns's hands the reader comes away humanised. With such a writer, language and rhythm become a kind of benediction, allowing you to see the world as a universal pattern of suffering and joy, caught in this native music that seems born of a single man and his beautiful orchestration of traditions. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
This Day in History Jan 24, 2008
Wallace Stevens, American poet and author (1879-1955). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
2007's top stories in the arts Dec 20, 2007
He is also 2007's recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets. Simic is an emeritus professor of the University of New Hampshire where he has taught since 1973. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Scholar wrote provocative biographies of complex artists Dec 18, 2007
In 1968, she earned a doctorate at Yale with a dissertation on Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman. It was published as a book in 1974, the same year she earned tenure. (Los Angeles Times)
Huntington library director helped expand literary, science holdings Dec 6, 2007
Woodward was actively involved in bringing the papers of poet Wallace Stevens and of poet and short story writer Conrad Aiken to the library. He also helped bring the papers of British novelist Kingsley Amis to the collection. (Los Angeles Times)
Q&A with Peter Gay Nov 26, 2007
GAY: Well, Wallace Stevens scared the hell out of me. I thought to myself: What would I do with him. (Boston Globe)
* Professor with a fighting chance Nov 25, 2007
" As for Wong, his raped and murdered Barbie dolls, Barton said, point to a nostalgia for childhood in a populace stranded in a wilderness somewhere between Japan and the US. The book's chapters were originally papers given at conferences abroad. Barton doesn't feel he has the right to talk to his students about Taiwanese painters. Instead, he gives courses on Western Civilization from Dante to Wallace Stevens, on Paris in the 1920s, and on painting and jazz in 1950s New York. "The artists in my... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Poet Robert Hass goes back in time with new work Nov 1, 2007
The late Susan Sontag was a friend and always called Hass whenever she visited the Bay Area, asking, "What are you reading? What's interesting? What movies have you seen?" When another friend, writer Judith Moore, was dying early last year, Hass paid visits to her Berkeley apartment and read aloud from the poems of Wallace Stevens or Richard Hugo. In "Time and Materials," Hass visits terrain he's explored before: the mystery of intimacy, the elusiveness of time. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Choreographer Sen Curran at a new level Oct 26, 2007
They launch into "The Nothing That Is Not There and the Nothing That Is," a name drawn from a Wallace Stevens poem. To a poignant Leos Janacek piano score, Kevin Scarpin and Evan Copeland walk slowly across the studio, as if in another world. (Boston Globe)
Finally, literary 'knighthood' for Edmund Wilson Oct 11, 2007
But then he writes of "This Side of Paradise" that it "commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit; but it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live." As criticism written in the moment, without the benefit of hindsight, this is pretty hard to beat, and Wilson had similarly perceptive things to say about E. E. Cummings and, here, about early Wallace Stevens. Sometime in the late '40s, disillusioned, perhaps, by Cold War politics and worn out by the dissolution... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Talking ShopLeading poet Sean O'Brien on how poetry awakens the senses Oct 5, 2007
A: I'm a great fan of the Irish poet Derek Mahon and of Peter Porter and David Harsent, and among the older poets Wallace Stevens, and Andrew Marvell from the 17th century. I read poetry pretty continuously and there are poets whose work I always return to. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Witter Bynner Sep 25, 2007
Among his many college friends were future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and fellow poet Wallace Stevens. Following Harvard, Bynner pursued the life of a literary man and moved to New York to work for McClure s Magazine. (Suite101.com)
U.S. poet laureate wows Seacoast Rep crowd Sep 21, 2007
He has since published more than 20 books of poetry and received a number of awards and acknowledgements, among them the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, awarded the same day he was appointed poet laureate. Sitting in the lobby of Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Simic says his childhood may have had an impact "a lot of the time the city was occupied ...; there was civil war, and we were bombed by the Nazis and the Allies. It makes an impression." But it was a long time ago,... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
UNH professor named U.S. Poet Laureate Sep 14, 2007
He won the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets this year, a Pulitzer in 1990 and the McArthur Grant in the 80s. He also holds the title of Co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Martha Craig, retired professor, Shakespearean scholar; at 75 Sep 7, 2007
At the service, Ferry will recite the poem "The House was Quiet and the World was Calm" by Wallace Stevens. The poem, Ferry said, "celebrates Martha Craig's persistent scholarly love of poetry.". (Boston Globe)
What’s our poet laureate’s name? Aug 26, 2007
This year he won the 100,000 Wallace Stevens award for poetry. Until he became our poet laureate earlier this month, I had never heard of the gentleman. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Keep the meter running Aug 18, 2007
"He's the person who should be poet laureate," said Tree Swenson, president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets, which announced that Simic is the 2007 recipient of the academy's $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, on the same day as the laureate announcement. "Despite his having been born elsewhere," Swenson said, "he has a streak that is typically American. He represents something essential in American poetry.". (Boston Globe)
Scissoring the past Aug 11, 2007
Beginning with an epigraph from Wallace Stevens - "how utterly we have forsaken the earth" - the poem travels a landscape of "cellular devastation"; its train passengers "trail their suitcases behind / like little shadows, fat with sins". On Purpose is a collection deeply engaged with what Stevens described as the nature of poetry itself - the "relation between a man and the world". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Immigrant Simic to be U.S. poet laureate Aug 3, 2007
Later on Thursday, Simic received another honor, the 14th annual Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize from the Academy of American Poets for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.". He married fashion designer Helen Dubin in 1964. (The Advocate -- Entertainment)
Yugoslavian migrant named poet laureate Aug 3, 2007
Later on Thursday, Simic received another honor, the 14th annual Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize from the Academy of American Poets. MOST READ STORIES. (AZCentral -- News)
Community : Feeling hot! Aug 2, 2007
"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955). "In summer, the song sings itself." William Carlos Williams (1883 1963). (Forest Republican, WI)
Leonard Michaels -- let us not forget him Jul 2, 2007
"I learned nothing about research methods from him, and very little about creative writing -- but he had a way of reading aloud a line of Wallace Stevens, say, or Kafka, that would forever change your understanding of a poem, or a story,'' she recalls. "On the other hand, he excused every class early, without exception. I don't think I ever saw him last to the end of the hour. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sydney Writers' Festival opening night address May 31, 2007
" "What a load of shite," he said. Of course, it wasn t really Australia. It was the thought of it. It was the imagining of it. And the great vehicle of such powerful imagining was literature. Shortly after we stopped haunting the piers, I began to find some of that magic I was looking for in books. The great American poet Wallace Stevens once said that literature helps you to live your life, and that s it there lies its wonder and its potency. Great literature never goes away and it never stops... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
All heaven and hell lie between the covers May 31, 2007
The great American poet Wallace Stevens once said that literature helps you to live your life, and there lies its wonder and its potency. Great literature never goes away and it never stops being surprising. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Free verse for all: Poems are made for fools like us Apr 29, 2007
I go up to the podium and read Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice Cream, getting a nod a nod ... Last years quote lines from Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens ... Then I remembered that it was Wallace Stevens, and remembered the line Let be be finale of seem. (Yale Herald, CT)
In Praise of Difficult Poetry: Apr 24, 2007
"Poetry Is a Destructive Force" from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens 1954 by Wallace Stevens, renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens; used by permission of Alred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Inc., New York, and Pollinger Limited, London. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forumWhat did you think of this article. (Slate)
- America's hottest young writers Apr 23, 2007
Instilled with a passion for reading while very young - his father read him Moby Dick and Wallace Stevens poems from the age of four - he says he drew from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian the conviction that a young man had to see the world and find adventure. His experiences in the corps, and his encounters with fellow recruits from all racial and social backgrounds, have provided him with rich literary fodder ever since. (Guardian Unlimited)
- The Saturday interview: Mario Vargas Llosa Apr 21, 2007
Wallace Stevens v Ernest Hemingway. American poet Stevens ended up with a black eye and broken hand after drunkenly provoking the young, tough Hemingway, who agreed to pretend his challenger had fallen down the stairs. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Land of Heart's Desire' Apr 6, 2007
Wallace Stevens' poem "The Snowman" became "A Mind of Winter," which Hunter will accompany on harp. "Tuit Mi Penser" is based on poetry by Guillaume de Machant, the 14th century French composer and poet. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Commission honors local artists Mar 16, 2007
Hollander named several great Connecticut poets to serve as examples, including: John Trumbull, Joel Barlow and Wallace Stevens, whom he called the "eternal poet laureate of Connecticut.". He said that listening to the sound of what is written and read is a crucial part of the process. (Hamden Journal, CT)
Enchantments of air and water Mar 3, 2007
They translated the airy painting Woman With a Parasol (Camille in 1886), in which the woman's veiled face is in the green shade of a parasol against the sky, full of what Wallace Stevens called "brushy clouds brushed up by brushy winds". (He was writing about weather by Frans Hals. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Wellesley professor wins poetry prize Feb 27, 2007
Other Bollingen Prize winners have included Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich and Jay Wright. Bidart's volumes include "Star Dust," published in 2005; "In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90," published in 1990; and "Music Like Dirt," published in 2002. (Buffalo News -- National)
Republican word wizard has mastered the fine art of Orwellian doublespeak Feb 13, 2007
It's reminiscent of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Everybody sees things a different way, and the words we use can transform a seemingly obvious truth into any number of realities. It's more than "you say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to." A liberal might say the potato, what with the culture of fluorescent mold covering the surface, is a deadly piece of garbage; Luntz might say the potato is exploring alternate avenues of biological possibilities. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
The Moneyed Muse Feb 12, 2007
The earliest issues contained poems by Ezra Pound (living in London and from the start the magazine s foreign correspondent), as well as H. D. and Wallace Stevens, both unknowns. In 1915, Monroe published a poem by T. S. Eliot, then in his mid-twenties: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. (New Yorker)
David Orr on Robert Frost Feb 5, 2007
The point here is not that our self-consciously avant-garde writers are kidding themselves, or that your ninth-grade English class was sliding along the razor's edge of American culture by reading "Birches." No, the point is that whenever we begin forming up teams in American poetry, we run into the problem of picking sides for such complex and hard-to-place poets as Frost, T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens (not to mention Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and Lorine Niedecker). Rather than take... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
How to fix a broken heart Feb 3, 2007
"After one has abandoned a belief in God," the poet Wallace Stevens said, "poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption." This makes sense to me: poetry often has a murkiness that allows it to deal with subjects themselves shrouded in haze. And what subject is murkier, hazier, than death, about which medical science can tell us everything and nothing all at once. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Looking Across the Pages Feb 3, 2007
Includes the works of noted authors such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes. Specifically regarding fiction, writers of the early 20th century began to feel that the traditional literary form was condescending to the reader, as well as... (Suite101.com)
Review: Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Hart Crane Jan 27, 2007
He was a fan of Pound before "The Cantos" and Joyce before "Ulysses," and was terrified by Eliot before "The Waste Land." As early as 1920 he was recommending, before either had published a book, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore, whom he referred to as "Marion" (Crane's deranged spelling offers one of the quiet comedies of the new Library of America edition of his work). Most of Crane's short life was spent scuffling for money. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Precincts of Paradise' Jan 25, 2007
While he admires the work of Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, John Keats and William Wordsworth, he acknowledges a great debt of gratitude to Hayden Carruth, with whom he studied closely during his graduate years at Syracuse University. "I found, in Carruth's work, a poetry that really excited me because it was accomplishing a lot of things I wanted to accomplish," Mr. Hoey says. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
DON'T STOP THE SQUABBLES Jan 12, 2007
In 1936 Wallace Stevens the poet, drunk, accosted Ernest Hemingway at a party and sneered: So, you think you re Ernest Hemingway. The resulting punch-up left both writers battered, and even more famous. (TimesOnline)
Book excerpt Jan 4, 2007
I wanted to be a poet so I thought there was no place for me to go but business school, in the tradition of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot. I realized there was a tradition of American poets who had made business careers, in a way separating their artistic life from their professional life. (MSNBC -- Business)
