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  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Blanche McCarthy
  4. Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
  5. Tea
  6. Sunday Morning
  7. Peter Quince at the Clavier
  8. The Silver Plough-Boy
  9. Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
  10. For an Old Woman in a Wig
  11. Domination of Black
  12. Six Significant Landscapes
  13. Inscription for a Monument
  14. The Worms at Heaven’s Gate
  15. In the Carolinas
  16. Indian River
  17. To the Roaring Wind
  18. Valley Candle
  19. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  20. The Plot against the Giant
  21. Gray Room
  22. Bowl, Cat and Broomstick
  23. The Death of a Soldier
  24. Metaphors of a Magnifico
  25. Depression before Spring
  26. Earthy Anecdote
  27. The Apostrophe to Vincentine
  28. Nuances of a Theme by Williams
  29. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
  30. Nomad Exquisite
  31. Life Is Motion
  32. Banal Sojourn
  33. Anecdote of the Jar
  34. Fabliau of Florida
  35. Ploughing on Sunday
  36. The Place of the Solitaires
  37. The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
  38. Infanta Marina
  39. Cortège for Rosenbloom
  40. The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
  41. The Doctor of Geneva
  42. Gubbinal
  43. The Snow Man
  44. Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
  45. Another Weeping Woman
  46. On the Manner of Addressing Clouds
  47. Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
  48. The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
  49. The Comedian as the Letter C
  50. Bantams in Pine-Woods
  51. The Ordinary Women
  52. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
  53. O Florida, Venereal Soil
  54. The Emperor of Ice-Cream
  55. Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
  56. Stars at Tallapoosa
  57. Floral Decoration for Bananas
  58. To the One of Fictive Music
  59. Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
  60. Two Figures in Dense Violet Light
  61. The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
  62. Academic Discourse at Havana
  63. Sea Surface Full of Clouds
  64. The Sun This March
  65. Lunar Paraphrase
  66. Anatomy of Monotony
  67. Autumn Refrain
  68. The Brave Man
  69. A Fading of the Sun
  70. The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
  71. The Idea of Order at Key West
  72. Lions in Sweden
  73. Evening Without Angels
  74. The Reader
  75. Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery
  76. Re-statement of Romance
  77. Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters into Heaven
  78. Sailing after Lunch
  79. Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
  80. The American Sublime
  81. Mozart, 1935
  82. Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz
  83. Dance of the Macabre Mice
  84. Anglais Mort à Florence
  85. Some Friends from Pascagoula
  86. Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue
  87. Farewell to Florida
  88. A Postcard from the Volcano
  89. Ghosts as Cocoons
  90. The Men That Are Falling
  91. A Thought Revolved
  92. The Man with the Blue Guitar
  93. A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
  94. United Dames of America
  95. The Dwarf
  96. Loneliness in Jersey City
  97. Anything Is Beautiful if You Say It Is
  98. A Weak Mind in the Mountains
  99. Parochial Theme
  100. Poetry Is a Destructive Force
  101. The Poems of Our Climate
  102. Study of Two Pears
  103. The Glass of Water
  104. Add This to Rhetoric
  105. Dry Loaf
  106. The Man on the Dump
  107. On the Road Home
  108. The Latest Freed Man
  109. Connoisseur of Chaos
  110. The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
  111. Of Hartford in a Purple Light
  112. Variations on a Summer Day
  113. Man and Bottle
  114. Of Modern Poetry
  115. Arrival at the Waldorf
  116. Landscape with Boat
  117. Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas
  118. Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun
  119. Mrs. Alfred Uruguay
  120. Asides on the Oboe
  121. Poem with Rhythms
  122. The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
  123. Montrachet-le-Jardin
  124. Metamorphosis
  125. Phosphor Reading by His Own Light
  126. Jumbo
  127. Poem Written at Morning
  128. Oak Leaves Are Hands
  129. Examination of the Hero in a Time of War
  130. [Prose statement on the poetry of war]
  131. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
  132. God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night
  133. Certain Phenomena of Sound
  134. Dutch Graves in Bucks County
  135. The Motive for Metaphor
  136. Chocorua to its Neighbor
  137. So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
  138. No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
  139. The Lack of Repose
  140. Somnambulisma
  141. The Creations of Sound
  142. Esthétique du Mal
  143. The Bed of Old John Zeller
  144. Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
  145. The Pure Good of Theory
  146. Paisant Chronicle
  147. Flyer’s Fall
  148. Description without Place
  149. Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors
  150. Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion
  151. The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
  152. Late Hymn from the Myrrh-Mountain
  153. Man Carrying Thing
  154. Men Made out of Words
  155. A Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home
  156. The Good Man Has No Shape
  157. From the Packet of Anacharsis
  158. The Dove in the Belly
  159. Mountains Covered with Cats
  160. The Prejudice Against the Past
  161. Credences of Summer
  162. A Pastoral Nun
  163. Two Versions of the Same Poem
  164. Someone Puts a Pineapple Together
  165. Of Ideal Time and Choice
  166. The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract
  167. The Owl in the Sarcophagus
  168. The Auroras of Autumn
  169. A Primitive Like an Orb
  170. Large Red Man Reading
  171. This Solitude of Cataracts
  172. In a Bad Time
  173. Metaphor as Degeneration
  174. Our Stars Come from Ireland
  175. World Without Peculiarity
  176. The Woman in Sunshine
  177. Imago
  178. Saint John and the Back-Ache
  179. Puella Parvula
  180. An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
  181. The Old Lutheran Bells at Home
  182. Questions Are Remarks
  183. Angel Surrounded by Paysans
  184. Things of August
  185. As at a Theatre
  186. The Rock
  187. A Discovery of Thought
  188. The Course of a Particular
  189. Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
  190. Madame La Fleurie
  191. A Quiet Normal Life
  192. Long and Sluggish Lines
  193. To an Old Philosopher in Rome
  194. The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
  195. Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It
  196. Prologues to What Is Possible
  197. Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly
  198. The World as Meditation
  199. An Old Man Asleep
  200. The Plain Sense of Things
  201. Lebensweisheitspielerei
  202. The Hermitage at the Centre
  203. The Dove in Spring
  204. The Planet on the Table
  205. The River of Rivers in Connecticut
  206. Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
  207. The Sail of Ulysses
  208. A Child Asleep in Its Own Life
  209. On the Way to the Bus
  210. First Warmth
  211. As You Leave the Room
  212. Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination
  213. A Clear Day and No Memories
  214. A Mythology Reflects Its Region
  215. Of Mere Being
  216. NOTES
  217. INDEX OF FIRST LINES
  218. INDEX OF TITLES
  219. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  220. WALLACE STEVENS

So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch

No Possum, No Sop, No Taters

The Lack of Repose

Somnambulisma

The Creations of Sound

Esthétique du Mal

The Bed of Old John Zeller

Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit

The Pure Good of Theory

Paisant Chronicle

Flyer’s Fall

Description without Place

Thinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors

Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion

The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm

Late Hymn from the Myrrh-Mountain

Man Carrying Thing

Men Made out of Words

A Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home

The Good Man Has No Shape

From the Packet of Anacharsis

The Dove in the Belly

Mountains Covered with Cats

The Prejudice Against the Past

Credences of Summer

A Pastoral Nun

Two Versions of the Same Poem

Someone Puts a Pineapple Together

Of Ideal Time and Choice

The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract

The Owl in the Sarcophagus

The Auroras of Autumn

A Primitive Like an Orb

Large Red Man Reading

This Solitude of Cataracts

In a Bad Time

Metaphor as Degeneration

Our Stars Come from Ireland

World Without Peculiarity

The Woman in Sunshine

Imago

Saint John and the Back-Ache

Puella Parvula

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven

The Old Lutheran Bells at Home

Questions Are Remarks

Angel Surrounded by Paysans

Things of August

As at a Theatre

The Rock

A Discovery of Thought

The Course of a Particular

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Madame La Fleurie

A Quiet Normal Life

Long and Sluggish Lines

To an Old Philosopher in Rome

The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain

Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It

Prologues to What Is Possible

Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly

The World as Meditation

An Old Man Asleep

The Plain Sense of Things

Lebensweisheitspielerei

The Hermitage at the Centre

The Dove in Spring

The Planet on the Table

The River of Rivers in Connecticut

Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself

The Sail of Ulysses

A Child Asleep in Its Own Life

On the Way to the Bus

First Warmth

As You Leave the Room

Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination

A Clear Day and No Memories

A Mythology Reflects Its Region

Of Mere Being

Notes

Index of First Lines

Index of Titles

About the Author

Other Books by This Author

Blanche McCarthy

Look in the terrible mirror of the sky

And not in this dead glass, which can reflect

Only the surfaces—the bending arm,

The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.

Look in the terrible mirror of the sky.

Oh, bend against the invisible; and lean

To symbols of descending night; and search

The glare of revelations going by!

Look in the terrible mirror of the sky.

See how the absent moon waits in a glade

Of your dark self, and how the wings of stars,

Upward, from unimagined coverts, fly.

Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges

Ursula, in a garden, found