On 25/10/05 9:41 AM, "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And I wouldn't be Wallace Stevens, because then I wouldn't be able to admire
> him from afar. Imagine BEING that poor lonely closed-off insurance executive,
> living in one wing of his mansion while his wife lived in another, admiring
> Mussolini for God's sake and never traveling .... Though I would like to have
> his money.
The first time I tried to read Stevens Collected, I put it down in despair -
I just couldn't get past his misogyny. And I was reading it precisely
because I liked the poems I had read so much. Ah me.
But yes, it would be nice to have his money...
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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