A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry
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If you ever feel like a weak, loser, coward, you can make yourself feel better by reading the biographies of John Berryman and Charles Baudelaire.

Morality is no easier than being the heavyweight boxing champion, no more essential or the natural state, no matter what the good-natured sociologists and egg-breaking religionists say.

The Satanic and the Mad and the Deviant are the best guides to a world that's a hidden chaos. The creepers, trolls and cringe are for the amateur masses. The bad, the mad, the repellent and the embarrassing are the lengths between the christmas lights, the places that aren't dream, sleep, wake or death. And you'd better buy their books and admire their skill, and be glad it wasn't directed beyond their art, though it most surely is.
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RE: A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry - by rowens - 09-08-2023, 11:21 PM



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