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Title: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens ISBN: 0-679-72445-1 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetry for everyone
Comment: "The Palm at the End of the Mind" is indeed High Art but I'd like to suggest this book as a must for the casual reader of poetry. This is not a book you need to be afraid of -- you will enjoy it. Others will enjoy it. Next time you're thinking of buying Cousin Minnie "Chicken Soup for the Soul" buy her this book instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mind at the End of the World
Comment: He is simply our greatest High Modernist.
Rating: 5
Summary: Here is essential poetry that remains good reading.
Comment: One of the three major creative forces in the verse of this century, Wallace Stevens, like Yeats and Eliot, rewards repeated readings, and The Palm at the Mind is a fine place to start. Every poem inside its pages shows Stevens's distinctive musicality, moral sophistication, and virtuoso command of the language, combined with his signature unexpectability. This last trait often results in something close to playfulness, and how Stevens's poetry balances such lingual fun with philosophical authority is one of the primary miracles of his art.
In these poems Stevens combines technical mastery approaching Yeats's with a cerebralness typically associated with Eliot. Yet Stevens's work is more emotionally complex than the Irish poet's and more nimble and sure than the English expatriot's. While Stevens is the only American of the three, his verse is unemcumbered by geography or nationalism.
Reading The Palm at the End of the Mind pleases on so many levels-the wordplay of The Emperor Of Ice Cream, the Zen feel of Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird, the fertility of O Florida, Venereal Soil, the music of The Man With The Blue Guitar, the philosophy of Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself, the self-consciousness of Of Modern Poetry. Or one can enjoy virtually all of these things at once in masterpieces like The Idea Of Order At Key West, Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction, or The Sail Of Ulysses.
This definitive collection is not only essential poetry for one's collection but, more importantly, good reading as well.
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Title: The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams by William C Williams ISBN: 0811202364 Publisher: Norton*(ww Norton Co Pub. Date: January, 1975 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem ISBN: 0805069860 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0486400611 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, Daniel R. Schwarz ISBN: 0312112246 Publisher: Bedford Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
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Title: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop ISBN: 0374518173 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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