A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry
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I can't find my Outlaw American Bible of Poetry.


I got it years ago when it was like 30 Dollars. A gay guy in New York told me he can steal anything for me that I wanted. He had a brother who stole his dogs and put chips in their heads. He was gay and living in a place in New York. He stole things for me. That's all I remember about him. At that time, I was young, and older gay guys liked me. More than any women ever liked me.

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I had something else to say, but I don't remember what. While I'm remembering, I want to say this about New York.
  One day I was, first, I had a book of poems I was writing called Fire and Water. I was walking along a street, and two women came out of an apartment. One of them looked like Emily Browning. I followed them for about ten minutes. I was very paranoid-feeling. They were so far away from me that I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I heard, in my paranoid mind, the girl who didn't look like Emily Browning say: : "Somebody's following us." And I went down another street.
  I later learned that Emily Browning was living on that street at that time. So, it's possible that it was her. I later wrote a letter from New York to Australia to her. That was later that month. She was there the whole time. Whether the girl I saw was her or not, I don't know for sure. I was projecting her face everywhere.
  Me and this Jewish guy, it's important that I say he was Jewish so that you don't right away assume antisemitism, were sitting on a bench near a fountain that had torches lit in structures around it. I looked through the glass where in lantern looking things there was fire, and watched the spray of water so that I saw fire and water in one sight.
  When I got back to VA, I started trying to rekindle excitement with a girl working at B Dalton, a Cancer, like me. In my room, above my raven, I mean, writing-desk, I still have papers, I used to staple notes and programs of books I was writing, the poem order of the Fire and Water book is still there. Was about me a Water Sign and E. B. a fire sign, but ended up a book to both Muses, EB Fire and DN Water.


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I still don't remember what I was going to say.

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Something about The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.
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RE: A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry - by rowens - 11-18-2023, 08:01 AM



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