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.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.