A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry
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The dark of Winter, when the stars, ironically, seem brightest. The wideness of Summer, the heat like chemtrails in a movie called The Crazies, from the '70s to the '00s. Spring and Autumn, the same-length but shorter blending months, early autumn, early spring are even more between. Between what? My dreams are different, sunlight, sounds. Lots of things.
  Then you get in a state beyond You, and start talking. That is Imagination speaking. The images are silently alive. And there's an expression of Nostalgia. Not nostalgia for any specific thing. Very Nostalgia. The Thing In Itself.
  How to express something Universally? Like the Baby at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Like the famous statue of Baphomet sitting on top of the Earth. Universal means Earth, means solar system, means galaxy, means universe, means mind, means world.
  The very Nostalgia. The very Imagination.
  The Things of Summer/August. The minute particulars. The Difference. What makes the Universal expressible in words and experiences.
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RE: A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry - by rowens - 09-05-2023, 08:34 AM



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