Much further into Harmonium. I love this book. It is the best book in the world some days ( Read more... )

Rereading Harmonium for Bishop purposes ( Read more... )

Despite crossing it with Ozymandias, 2000 Illustrations' debt to Sunday Morning is kind of alarming. There's a bit or two that seem like they might be tributes to Stevens (the burnoose line, the sepulcher one), but to be taking so much, and of the main, not incidentals - surely you can't do that consciously, can't proceed with that weighing on you ( Read more... )

(1. The Palm at the End of the Mind ( Read more... )

Opened a book finally, Stevens again, Comedian and Notes. Both fantastic, but the latter! Not very hard, nor have his other poems been hard - clear Stevens paths a couple times and they stay cleared, looks like. Though I haven't yet gotten to Ordinary ( Read more... )

I should put a warning label on procrastination entries. They're not like other entries ( Read more... )

Had a dream that seemed extremely significant and wrote these things down before losing it:

chewing on things, paper

attacks (but [something] solid books in areas [something] or chewed through shells)

authors in dreams - those she dreams will be healthier, will live

box format
seasonalI think it involved following a female up and down a ( Read more... )

Oh, also noticed last week that this must be Pullman's source for his angels:

Large Red Man Reading

There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.

There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem ( Read more... )

Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination, Stevens ( Read more... )

Narrative elements are so rare in Stevens yet he handles them so well. This is a favorite of mine. And surely is some kind of response or tribute to Yeats ( Read more... )