A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry

[brynmawr1]

I recently ran across James Tate.  I found my first exposure of his poems to be a little too prosaic but then i got his book of "Selected Poems".  Neither here nor there, but it won him a pulitzer.  I'm finding his writing refreshingly simple, but so direct it makes me forget how hard it is to write like that.  He is considered a surrealist, but again, the direct feel of his writing makes it sublime.