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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
 DescriptionThe famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
 List Price: Price: $9.58 You Save: $9.37 (49%) DescriptionThis definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:- "Harmonium" - "Ideas of Order" - "The Man With the Blue Guitar" - "Parts of the World" - "Transport Summer" - "The Auroras of Autumn" - "The Rock"
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
 List Price: Price: $5.44 You Save: $5.51 (50%) DescriptionThe Necessary Angelby Wallace Stevens "In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." —Perspective—U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." —Hayden Carruth, The Nation "The most welcome attribute of the book is its humane good sense, equally manifest whether Stevens is discussing a desolate Pennsylvania churchyard. Plato's images or the personalities of those who prefer a drizzle in Venice to a hard rain in Hartford.''' —New Republic "It is a rare pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of confidence and wholeness which distinguishes the world of Wallace Stevens. Here we are refreshed by certainty without fragmentariness, by joyous possibilities without dishonesty. Here we find a moral and philosophical center through which reality may be repossessed and re-created with each new poetic act." —C. Roland Wagner, The Hudson Review
Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America)
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Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire
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Los Angeles TimesCounty's top speller ready for national beeBy BRIAN WALLACE, Staff Writer No, the stress of competing on the national stage hasn't gotten to Lancaster County's top speller. Visions are a good thing for Amy, who says she "sees" words in her mind before she spells them. Video: Raw Video: Spelling Bee Champ Crowned Top speller ready
New York TimesThe Quad Countdown: No. 99 Washington WR Isaiah Stanbeck (Dallas Cowboys), TE Jerramy Stevens (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), OT Joe Toledo (San Francisco 49ers), QB Marques Tuiasosopo (Oakland Raiders), S CJ Wallace (Seattle Seahawks), WR Reggie Williams (Jacksonville Jaguars).