A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry
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Since the poets are dead, they are whole. And you can experience them as whole, in the context of poetry. Since they are ghosts, and their lives lend to the spirits of places and items and books and works, they have secrets that are here and there, in old buildings and caves and in dreams and sound and image combinations. People are mediums for the spirits as oujia boards and crystals and inkblotted water are mediums for the ghosts, and versa vice.

The Poets are Figures. Padmasambhava is a Figure who left secrets hidden under rocks.

Dead poets can be invoked, or evoked like Byron was in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and there you have them to battle and see through, like Shang Tsung.


Full body experience, and by that I mean environments, situations, dreams, walking down the road.

Living poets are like Thunderdomes.
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RE: A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry - by rowens - 09-29-2023, 04:27 AM



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