Singing the Sea & Cultivating the Mind of Winter
I was entranced by Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Idea of Order at Key West” when I first read it in …
Tag Archives: Wallace Stevens
Poetry: The Thing We Die for Lack Of
Paul Klee, Versunkene Landschaft, 1918 Wallace Stevens once famously said: “You can’t get the news from poems, but men die …
Music is More Feeling than Sound
From “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the …
A Cranky Reader: What I Crave When I Read Poetry
I was invited to write a guest blog post about poetry on Luanne Castle’s Writer Site. The following was first …
Downward into Darkness on Extended Wings
Wallace Stevens’ poem “Sunday Morning” ends with these lines: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old …
Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
