Three people whose lives intersect during World War II take turns narrating and coming to terms with their pasts and a hidden truth that unites them.
Bevis addresses the most puzzling and least studied aspect of Wallace Stevens’ poetry: detachment. Stevens’ detachment, often associated by readers with asceticism, bareness, or withdrawal, is one of the distinguishing...
Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an ...
Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation and Literature
A contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
A series of personal essays matched with scholarly commentaries on theorists of the Imagination in Western intellectual history.
This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition.
For example, Quen- tin in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury seems to talk in fragments: You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of ...
The first new collection in twelve years by renowned California poet and New Formalist, Timothy Steele. A quiet intelligence pervades the lines of these poems and reinforces Steele's mastery of form and image.
A winner of both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize presents a lyrical, intensely personal collection of essays and poetry that covers such topics as turtle eggs, her favorite poets, housebuilding, the flight of swans, and her own ...
"The Collected Poems" is the one volume that Stevens intented to contain all the poems he wished to preserve, presented in the way he wanted.