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Knopf
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0307280470
EAN: 9780307280473
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Fiction Poetry
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of
the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of
contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work
that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction,
Stevens has written more persuasively than any other poet
about the significance of poetry itself in everyday life:
“The imagination—frequently synonymous with the act of the
mind, or poetry, for Stevens—is what gives life its savor,
its sanction, its sacred quality.” This rich and thorough selection—published in the 130th
anniversary year of Stevens’s birth—carries us from the
explosion of Harmonium in 1923 to the maturity of The
Auroras of Autumn in 1950 and the magisterial Collected
Poems published by Knopf in 1954. To be drawn in once more
by “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Idea
of Order at Key West,” “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” to
name only a few, is to experience again the mystery of a
poet who calls us to a higher music and to a deeper
understanding of our vast and inarticulate interior world. This essential volume for all readers of poetry reminds us
of Stevens’s nearly unparalleled contribution to the art
form and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and
delight us.
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