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Simon Critchley

I read a lot of poetry and have spent many years trying to get beyond Stevens and my obsession with his late verse in particular. But I can’t.

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Simon Critchley

I read a lot of poetry and have spent many years trying to get beyond Stevens and my obsession with his late verse in particular. But I can’t.

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Lisa Yuskavage

I bought this in 1985 and have read it constantly since. It is always near me. Wallace’s poems often reflect on the act of creating, and he evokes exquisite mental images that are thrilling. One of my favorite poems is “The Snow Man.” “For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”

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