{"product_id":"wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire-paperback","title":"Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"More than any other single critic, Vendler has shown people how to read Stevens not as a philosopher...but as a passionate and often disappointed human being.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Stephanie Burt, \u003ci\u003eWallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA giant of modern poetry finds his greatest reader and fiercest advocate in the peerless Helen Vendler.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWallace Stevens is often considered a cerebral, abstract poet. Alternating between ornamental flourish and philosophical contemplation, his work can seem impenetrable to casual readers. When a bewildered acquaintance once asked him to explain a poem, Stevens elliptically replied, \"I don't think you'd understand this unless you wrote it.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd yet, as Helen Vendler shows, there is so much more to Stevens than dexterous wordplay or oblique cogitations on the relationship between reality and imagination. In a meticulous reading of his shorter poems--\"The Idea of Order at Key West,\" \"The Snow Man,\" and \"The Emperor of Ice-Cream,\" among others--Vendler excavates the depth of human feeling beneath his rarefied surfaces. Vendler's Stevens is, above all, a poet of desire and its disillusions. His choices of words, fastidious as they are, mark his attempt to find a form adequate to his over-acute experience of ordinary life events: the failure of a marriage, the death of a neighbor, or a simple walk through his Connecticut neighborhood. Beyond sensual desire, his most profound yearning is to capture in poetry what his nerves cannot help but register, to encapsulate a world that has \"stopped revolving except in crystal.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompiled from Vendler's 1982 lectures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, \u003ci\u003eWords Chosen Out of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e showcases a leading critic at the peak of her powers, one whose masterful reconstructions played no small part in cementing Stevens's place in the canon of literary modernism.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.48 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45677861044268,"sku":"9780674945753","price":57.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/TCjrzncsBf9780674945753.webp?v=1781802610","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}