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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROUSE FOR STEVENS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallace stevens, what's he done?
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


AN IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire
Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids
Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Words; Vocabulary


ARTE POVERA, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a poem by stevens (his latest manner)
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675); Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Headstones


AT THE GRAVE OF WALLACE STEVENS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thinks of the gods dissolving in midair
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


AT THE GRAVE OF WALLACE STEVENS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thinks of the gods dissolving in midair
Last Line: The domes of skyscrapers gleam in the distance
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)


AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled
Last Line: In boston. Writers, know your place %before it gets too modest to be known
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)


AVIARY, by JOSEPH P. SISK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wallace stevens fancied the blackbird
Last Line: Poetry, apparently, %is for the birds
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire
Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids
Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One summer day a blackbird sang
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


KING KONG MEETS WALLACE STEVENS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take two photographs
Subject(s): King Kong; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


KING KONG MEETS WALLACE STEVENS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take two photographs
Last Line: The hands drain from his jacket, %pose in the murderer's shadow
Subject(s): King Kong; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


MEMO FROM THE DESK OF WALLACE STEVENS, by DICK ALLEN    Poem Full Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Send me a postcard from
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


METAMORPHOSES: 7. ECHO (WALLACE STEVENS), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I acquired new pine teeth
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


METAMORPHOSES: 7. ECHO (WALLACE STEVENS), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I acquired new pine teeth
Last Line: And what was I to do %but turn inanimate?
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


ON GARI MELCHER'S WRITING IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, by HELEN A. PINKERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: How often did she make such quiet, one wonders
Last Line: The quiet art of keeping calm the house
Variant Title(s): On Gari Melchers' Writing (1905) In The Los Angeles County Museu
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights


ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT A WOMAN, by PHYLLIS WITTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the late night stillness of city
Last Line: The woman stayed with me %stayed very still, with me
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights


POEM FOR POETRY, by CATHERINE WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wallace stevens investigation
Last Line: The definite plasma spun off %huh - hh - hulp - huh
Variant Title(s): A Poem For National Geographi
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


POET IN CONNECTICUT (WALLACE STEVENS), by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poetry -- a blue antenna
Last Line: A star, the son of a star
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


ROUSE FOR STEVENS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallace stevens, what's he done?
Last Line: Brother, he's our father!
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station
Last Line: The domain of colouring invading %the responsible
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After fulfilling everything
Last Line: Taking cover.
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station
Last Line: Who-he-is-in-reality, the domain of colouring invading the responsible.
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A HERRING (AFTER STEVENS), by DAVID SHEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched for silence
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


TIA OLIVIA SERVES WALLACE STEVENS A CUBAN EGG, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ration books voided, there was little to eat
Last Line: Yes. But then what the color of the sea, senora?
Subject(s): Cuba; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


TWINS, by CARL DJERASSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wallace stevens: poet's poet
Last Line: Extracts from adresses to the academy of the fine ideas.' k lee dies. %es war nict notig, englisch z
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On new year's night after a party
Last Line: He limped on, taking despair %as a new antidote for love
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS AND CHARLES IVES TALK SHOP IN FARMINGTON, ME, by MARIANNE BORUCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither really liked insurance
Last Line: Like humidity, distantly, %like shifting trucks
Subject(s): Ives, Charles (1874-1954); Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS ESCAPES CONNECTICUT, by HOWARD WINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Settling into the car seat, he feels his body cradled by fabric
Last Line: Remains dark green, almost black %for any observer searching upward %into otherwise empty skies
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS IN BIG SUR, by LANCE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joins me on lethe's patio
Last Line: To be at hazard here, %part of the vast %unquiet of this repose
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS REMEMBERS HALLOWEEN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing I loved was halloween
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS REMEMBERS HALLOWEEN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing I loved was halloween
Last Line: And kinglets, come to the comic feeder
Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallace stevens comes hurrying down from the mountain
Last Line: Hurries in, stiff and stern and almost like a hero.
Subject(s): Doubt; Freedom; Immortality; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Skepticism; Liberty


WATERBURY CROSS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall. You're driving 84 southwest
Last Line: Who bides time in a cloud? Choking, my car %walks over water, across to danbury
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Cross, The; Religion; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)


WORD FROM MRS. WALLACE STEVENS, by SIMA RABINOWITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing grotesque or accidental as the day begins
Last Line: And an eager needle plucked the plump white flesh of my thumb
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights


WORDS WITH WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were so rash. I'd play saying
Last Line: Dress, lolling in the garden, longing....
Subject(s): Collaboration; Courage; Faith; God; Innocence; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed