Well I think both Mark & I are too, Stephen. WCW is the one I return to
to read more often. But there are a few poems in the Stevens oeuvre
that insist on being granted a sense of greatness by me. On the other
hand, I never think of 'humoir' & Stevens at the same time....
If only he'd gone further with the '13 Ways' vision & practice...
Doug
On 27-Oct-05, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>> I.... but I also
>> love Ideas of Order, which includes The Idea of Order at Key West. I
>> treasure a very tattered copy of the first edition which I happened
>> on in a
>> used bookstore years ago.
>>
>> Mark
>
> Not to be "gratuitous frivolous", but given the recent path of
> Hurricane
> Wilma, "The Idea of Order at Key West" today has an odd irony about it
> -
> probably en situ an idea that is on everybody's mind. Governor Jeb Bush
> probably has a copy in his office, and the FEMA Director, too. I
> suspect
> the Jar in Tennessee is flooded, maybe even broke, as well.
>
> Every time I try to read Steven's I tend to exhausted by the work's
> formal
> beauty - even the humor, "The Empress of ..." seems like a Circus
> without
> manure stains on its tarps. Of he same era, in the same country, I am
> much
> more at home with Williams.
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
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