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Summary: Poetry for everyone
Review: "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.
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Summary: Poetry for everyone
Review: "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.
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Summary: Mind at the End of the World
Review: He is simply our greatest High Modernist.
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Summary: Ah, the joys of Wallace Stevens...
Review: I have had a love affair with Wallace Stevens' work and "The Palm at the End of the Mind" for almost three decades. My favorite Wallace Stevens' poem is "The Man With the Blue Guitar." This poem is fabulous spoken aloud - I loved it so much that I memorized it! "The Men That Are Falling" is rather like the hour between 3AM-4AM, very contemplative - when it seems like you can feel eternity. I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I have.
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Summary: Ah, the joys of Wallace Stevens...
Review: I have had a love affair with Wallace Stevens' work and "The Palm at the End of the Mind" for almost three decades. My favorite Wallace Stevens' poem is "The Man With the Blue Guitar." This poem is fabulous spoken aloud - I loved it so much that I memorized it! "The Men That Are Falling" is rather like the hour between 3AM-4AM, very contemplative - when it seems like you can feel eternity. I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I have.
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Summary: Here is essential poetry that remains good reading.
Review: 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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