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050 00 $aPS3537.T4753$bA6 2009
082 00 $a811/.52$222
100 1 $aStevens, Wallace,$d1879-1955.
240 10 $aPoems.$kSelections
245 10 $aSelected poems /$cby Wallace Stevens ; edited by John N. Serio.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2009.
300 $axxii, 327 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rJohn N. Serio --$tfrom Harmonium (1923, 1931) --$tfrom Ideas of order (1936) --$tfrom The man with the blue guitar & other poems (1937) --$tfrom Parts of a world (1942) --$tfrom Transport to Summer (1947) --$tfrom The auroras of Autumn (1950) --$tfrom "Three academic pieces" in The necessary angel (1951) --$tfrom The rock in The collected poems (1954) --$tfrom Opus posthumous (1957, 1989).
520 1 $a"A 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 imaginationfrequently synonymous with the act of the mind, or poetry, for Stevens - is what gives life its savor, its sanction, its sacred quality.""
520 8 $a"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."--Jacket.
600 10 $aStevens, Wallace,$d1879-1955$vLiterary collections.
650 0 $aPoetry.
700 1 $aSerio, John N.,$d1943-
752 $aUnited States$bNew York$dNew York.
988 $a20090410
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