Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.