Wallace Stevens: Words That Matter

Poetry reading and discussion with Susan Howe and Joan Richardson

[@davol2449]

my first day at the Graduate Center in 1973, I attended Mandelbaum's Modern Poetry course and was sitting next to Joan Richardson, who was so gorgeous, I was afraid to look at her....

[@charlespeterson3798]

I have been in love with her for 50 years. Her voice broke my heart.

[@PoetryETrain]

Thank you, this has been added to a playlist...

[@purpledanny1958]

Am I alone in finding Susan Howe's talk obscure?

[@BardSonic]

Stevens poetry attracts academics like this one because they use his work to place themselves on stage, for attention, as interpreters. It is a chance for them to gather attention.

[@ravenoversnow]

hmmm, While I understand why Joan Richardson shutdown Susan Howe, to then go on and talk without relief herself seems entirely unfair...perhaps I've misread the situation...

[@windstorm1000]

Stevens is 'da bomb'--the best 20th century poet with Robert Frost. By the way, Stevens had a bit of a temper--he got into fights with Hemingway and Frost (with the latter no doubt about realist vs. symbolist imagery). The imagery is bizarre--the best American poet dukin it out with the best American novelist. "Papa' won.

[@davol2449]

wait a minute...are you actually suggesting that Hemingway was in any way remotely the "best American novelist?" I hate to be rude, but, like, are you sure you can actaully READ??

[@charlespeterson3798]

Understand your own mind.

[@rapier1954]

Temper fueled by booze.

[@AllendeEtAl]

Stevens is magnificent but is not even the best american poet of the 20th Century. Ezra Pound goes first, followed by some.

[@brutecoan7975]

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