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My Hometown
|"My Hometown"
|Single by Bruce Springsteen
|from the album Born in the U.S.A.
|"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"
|November 21, 1985 (7" single)
|May 1, 1983
|Bruce Springsteen
|Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen
|Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
|Born in the U.S.A. track listing
12 tracks
"My Hometown" is a single by Bruce Springsteen off his Born in the U.S.A. album, that was the record-tying seventh and last top 10 single to come from it, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart, making the song Springsteen's only #1 song on this chart to date.[1] The song is a synthesizer-based, low-tempo number that features Springsteen on vocals.
The song's lyrics begin with the speaker's memories of his father instilling pride in the family's hometown. While it first appears that the song will be a nostalgic look at the speaker's childhood, the song then goes on to describe the racial violence and economic depression that the speaker witnessed as an adolescent and a young adult. The song concludes with the speaker's reluctant proclamation that he plans to move his family out of the town, but not without first taking his own son on a drive and expressing the same community pride that was instilled in him by his father.
Some of the song's images reference the recent history of Springsteen's own hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey, in particular the racial strife in 1960s New Jersey and economic tensions from the same times (e.g., the "textile mill being closed" was the A & M Karagheusian Rug Mill at Center and Jackson Streets of Freehold).[2]
Music video[edit]
The music video for "My Hometown" was a straightforward video filming of a performance of the song at a Springsteen and E Street Band concert late in the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, eschewing fast-paced cutting for slower montages of Springsteen and various band members. Despite its lack of visual excitement, it still managed substantial MTV airplay in late 1985/early 86.
Track listing[edit]
- "My Hometown" - 4:33
- "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" - 4:27
The B-side of the single, "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", was a semi-comical live recording of the Christmas fave from a Springsteen and E Street Band concert on December 12, 1975 at C. W. Post College on Long Island, New York. Long familiar to Springsteen fans from its distribution years earlier to rock radio stations, it had previously been released on the fairly unknown 1981 children's album In Harmony 2; now in time for the Christmas season it was being issued again. Always a radio favorite, Bruce's "Santa Claus" would benefit from the all-holiday-music-all-the-time formats of the 2000s, and during the 2005 holiday season "Santa Claus" would appear on the Billboard Top 40 Adult Recurrents and Hot Digital Songs charts.
Live performance history[edit]
"My Hometown" was a staple selection on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, in an arrangement very similar to the album. Springsteen sometimes preceded the song with a story about the tall veterans' monument in front of the courthouse in Freehold; later in the tour he announced gifts to local food banks, union funds, and related activities before playing the song. It quickly skyrocketed on the charts of music.
"My Hometown" was omitted during the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express Tour, but then appeared at all twenty performances on that year's later Human Rights Now! Tour, where it saluted people trying to take responsibility for their own freedom. It has been played on and off on Springsteen's various tours ever since; it is part of the repertoire of songs that Springsteen pulls out on a given night when he thinks it fits the theme or mood of a concert or location. The song has been performed about 260 times through 2008.
- U2, performed the song live on their 1987 "Joshua Tree Tour",
- Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein & Michael Cicone performed the song on their 1993 album "Only Human".
- Neil Young on his 2014 album A Letter Home.[3]
- Pavel Bobek performed the song as "Můj rodný dům" on his 1988 album "Já při tom byl"
- Mischief Brew, Erik Petersen recorded and digitally released on "Thanks, Bastards"
Chart positions[edit]
|Chart (1986)
|US Billboard Hot 100
|US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)
|US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)
|Australian Singles Chart
|Canada (RPM Magazine)
|Irish Singles Chart
|Netherlands Music Chart
|New Zealand Music Chart
|Sweden Music Chart
|UK Singles Chart
See also[edit]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ Demasters, Karen (April 9, 2000). "A Factory That Wove Rugs and Bound a Town Together.". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
The mill was referred to in the Bruce Springsteen song My Hometown; Mr. Springsteen's father worked there for a time. ...
- ^ Greene, Andy (18 April 2014). "Neil Young's New Covers Album Available Right Now: Surprise!". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 April 2014.


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HMAS Australia: Assemble Castlereagh Street.
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30th Inf Bn NSW Scottish Regt: Assemble: Phillip Street, between Bent and Bridge streets, 1100. Reunion: Park Terrace Restaurant, David Jones, Elizabeth Street Store, 1.30pm.
36th Bn: (For the last time.) Assemble: Bligh Street (outside Wentworth Hotel) 1030. Final reunion lunch at Five Dock RSL Bowling Club, cnr Great North Road and Lyons Road, Five Dock.
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Fame House, a Universal Music Group company, seeks a D2C Accounts Coordinator to work with merch and D2C clients to deliver best-in-class merchandising services are executed for our clients. The D2C Accounts Coordinator will act as the main Fame House point of contact for select clients, working with Fame House and client teams to manage store operations, new product and store launches, and more. You will have the
opportunity to work with some of the most successful artists and entertainment companies in the world, and to work with emerging digital music and entertainment technologies.
Founded in January 2011, Fame House is an award-winning digital strategy agency with offices in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles that's built to uniquely serve the needs of the modern music industry. Fame House's early foresight into crafting services around the new
opportunities of connecting artists and fans online led them to help establish a new key role within the music ecosystem serving artists alongside labels, management companies, event companies and agents.
Job Functions:
• Store & Client Management:
o Act as primary day-to-day point of contact at Fame House for select clients, liaising between the client and Fame House's Merchandise, Strategy, and Creative teams as needed.
o Lead project management for all assigned clients' shops.
o Maintain positive working relationships with clients.
o Oversee the setup and launch of new client stores.
o Manage logistics for merch and D2C campaigns, such as pre-orders.
o Update products, descriptions, images, and other customer facing information.
o Proactively sweep and optimize clients' stores for updates and new opportunities to improve sales.
o Work with customer service team to provide excellent customer experiences.
• Reporting:
o Conduct periodic reports for each client.
o Conduct weekly inventory reports.
o Use sales reports to make recommendations to drive revenue for clients.
• Marketing & Product Ideation:
o Work with client and FH account teams to ideate and create unique, topical merchandise for clients.
o Work with Strategy teams to identify opportunities for marketing campaigns to support store and new product launches.
o Seek out partnerships with appropriate production & specialty merchandise companies for clients.
• Work closely with the Fame House Merchandise team to manage store logistics, including:
o Inventory levels and reporting
o Comp shipment requests
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• Impressive verbal and written abilities - client communication skills are essential.
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• Intermediate knowledge of inventory and sales reporting.
• Strong math and analytical skills.
• Some experience or knowledge of various e-commerce platforms including Shopify and PayPal.
• Motivated, takes initiative, and is looking to grow within the company.
• Trustworthy with sensitive information.
• Strong passion for music and the music industry is preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel & Microsoft Office.
• 1-3 years of accounts experience working with clients, preferably in ecommerce, digital marketing, music, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in business, merchandising, or a related field.
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Below is the press release from Connecticut's Department of Athletics.
- Note: Please click on the player's name in the list to go directly to the short biography included in UConn's release. Clicking on the name above the bio opens Scout.com's player profile.
Connecticut Football Signs 26 to National Letters of Intent
STORRS, Conn. - University of Connecticut head football coach Randy Edsall announced on Wednesday that the Huskies have signed 26 student-athletes to a National Letter of Intent to join the UConn program.
"With this outstanding group of student-athletes, we filled the holes of our graduating seniors; and in so doing, we have become bigger, stronger, faster and more athletic than we have been in previous years," Edsall says. "I was impressed with the leadership, maturity and character that this group displayed throughout the recruiting process. They will come here and fit right in with our current student-athletes to continue the rise of the University of Connecticut football program."
UConn posted an 8-4 record in 2004 and defeated Toledo in the Motor City Bowl by a score of 39-10. The bowl appearance was the first in school history as the Huskies were in just their third season of competition at a Division I-A level. UConn also made its debut as a member of the Big East Conference in 2004 and had a 3-3 record in the league - including a win over Pittsburgh, which represented the league in the Bowl Championship Series. In it's inaugural season as a Big East member, UConn led the conference in both total offense and total defense.
The following is a full signee roster and short biography of each:
|Akers, Joe
|Reisterstown, Md. / Hereford
|Ashmead, Matt
|Miami, Fla. / Miami Norland
|Baltimore, Terry
|Central Nyack, N.Y. / Nyack
|Barksdale, Anthony
|Farmingdale, N.Y. / Farmingdale
|Brown, Cody
|Coral Springs, Fla. / Coral Springs
|Brown II, Dennis
|Miami, Fla. / Miami Central
|Brown, Don
|Atlantic Highlands, N.J. / Red Bank Catholic
|Cundiff, Billy
|Uniontown, Ohio / Green
|Dillon, Brandon
|Woodbridge, Pa. / Fork Union (Va.) Military Acad.
|Dixon, Andre
|New Brunswick, N.J. / New Brunswick
|Dorcelus, Todd
|Irvington, N.J. / Irvington
|Fry, Bobby
|Cocoa, Fla. / Titusville
|Getek, Rob
|Pepperell, Mass. / Milford Academy (N.Y.)
|Green, Lawrence
|McKeesport, Pa. / McKeesport
|Hicks, Jarvis
|Deerfield Beach, Fla. / Deerfield Beach
|Hicks, Mike
|Seymour, Conn. / Seymour
|LaMagdelaine, Alex
|Rumson, N.J. / Rumson Fair Haven
|McClam, Jimmy
|Seat Pleasant, Md. / C.H. Flowers
|Mourning, Glen
|Danbury, Conn. / Danbury
|Pommells, Kitt
|Paterson, N.J. / Paterson Catholic
|Presnell, Andrew
|Middletown, Md. / Middletown
|Quarles, Kelvin
|Tucker, Ga. / Meadow Creek
|Robinson, Courtney
|Lake Worth, Fla. / Atlantic Community
|Ryan, Dan
|Franklin, Conn. / Norwich Free Academy
|Teague, Carl
|St. Petersburg, Fla. / St. Petersburg Catholic
|Watson, Travis
|Highland Village, Texas / Marcus
First player in Maryland high school history to earn consensus all-state honors three times…was named Maryland State Lineman of the Year as a senior…as a senior on defense, recorded more than 100 tackles and also had 15 sacks…team went 13-1 and advanced to state championship game…was a three-time All-Metro pick in the Baltimore area...had a 3.2 grade point average in high school and was named to the Baltimore academic honor roll…enrolled at UConn in January of 2005.
Senior year was only season of varsity football…had 71 tackles, seven sacks and four pass breakups…was named honorable mention All-Dade County.
Was team captain and earned first team all-state, all-league, all-section and all-county honors…rushed for 1,012 yards for 16 touchdowns on 120 carries in senior year…had 291 rushing yards in one game vs. Harrison High School…on defense, recorded three interceptions…team was state, section and league champions…was named the Journal News Player of the Year (Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties)…was the Section I Class A League B running back of the year…team won fourth sectional title in five years in 2004…team was 10-1 in senior year…an excellent baseball player who holds the school record for singles in a season with 40…was a first team all-county and all-league pick in baseball.
Was a first team All-Nassau County and All-Long Island selection…rushed for 869 yards in his senior season on 136 carries for 11 touchdowns…also had 17 receptions for 272 yards and a TD…on defense as a linebacker, had 82 tackles for three sacks and an interception…team was the Nassau Conference I Champions…played his first three years of high school football in Columbia, N.J. and was a three-time All-Burlington County, All-Patriot Division and All-South Jersey pick.
A team captain who made 88 tackles and had nine sacks as a senior…was named first team All-Broward County and honorable mention all-state…played in the BCAA All-Star Classic on Dec. 4 and the Nike South Florida All-Star game on Jan. 17…was an All-Broward County pick in basketball…was an honorable mention Sweet 16 selection by the Miami Herald.
Team captain...A third-team 6-A all-state selection in Florida and a first team All-Dade County pick…threw for 2,001 yards in his senior year for 18 touchdowns and led team to a 9-3 season…was a Dade-Broward County all-star pick…was named MVP of the Dade-Broward County All-Star game on Jan. 17..his 13-yard TD run in that game with 31 seconds left gave Dade a 20-17 win.
Rushed for 2,032 yards as a senior and scored 27 touchdowns…was named first team all-division, All-Monmouth County and All-Jersey Shore and was second team all-state...has a 3.2 high school grade point average.
Was named first team all-league for three seasons and first-team all-district as a junior…was named second team all-state as a senior…had senior season cut short in the sixth game with an ankle injury…had 72 completions on 112 attempts for 1,051 yards and 15 touchdowns in those five-plus games…threw for a total of 3,137 yards in his high school career and was 217 for 403 for 42 touchdowns...will quarterback the North team in the Ohio North-South All Star Game.
Prepped at Fork Union Military Academy this past year…was nominated for the Big 33 (Pennsylvania-Ohio) All-Star Game as a high school senior at Pittston Area in 2002 and the Pennsylvania East-West Game …started at both tight end and linebacker…transferred for his senior year from Marshall High School in Rochester, N.Y.…was named first-team all-city at Marshall and was the school's offensive player of the year as a wide receiver…also started on the varsity basketball teams at both Pittston Area and Marshall.
Rushed for 1,018 yards as a high school senior for 20 touchdowns….was high school teammate and next door neighbor of current Husky Marvin Taylor.
Pronounced door-CELL-us...Earned first team all-state honors in New Jersey as named by the Associated Press…made 40 receptions for 659 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior - playing in just seven games due to a shoulder injury…also returned a combined 19 kickoffs and punts for 365 yards…team was 7-3 in senior season…had high school career total of 82 receptions for 1,461 yards and 14 touchdowns…served as team captain and team MVP…a finalist for the US Army All-American Bowl…earned all-region honors…as a junior, was named first team all-county, all-conference and third team all-state for Group IV.
A team captain who was a first team all-conference pick and second team all-state for class 4A...was named to the Central Florida All-State team as a senior and also a Brevard County All-Star…was an All-Space Coast Team selection by Florida Today…an outstanding student-athlete with a 3.9 grade point average…played offensive tackle in high school.
Pronounced GET-eck...Spent the 2004 season in prep school at Milford Academy in New Berlin, N.Y….had 13 receptions for 22 yards and three touchdowns at Milford…named first team all-state and all-area as a senior in 2003 at Bishop Guertin in Nashua, N.H…played in the Shrine-Maple Sugar Bowl between New Hampshire and Vermont all-stars…made 30 receptions for 400 yards as a senior after grabbing 24 passes in his junior year for 350 yards…a team captain in both football and basketball…enrolled at UConn in January of 2005.
- Note: Getek changed his college destination following the departure of Syracuse's ex-head coach, Paul Pasqualoni. The Pepperell, Mass. native originally committed to UConn before heading to a prep school.
A two-time first-team all-conference pick…an all-region selection as a senior…team went 7-3 in senior year and advanced to second round of state playoffs…comes from the same high school as current Husky Jason Williams and Kinnan Herriott, who was a senior last year.
A first team All-Broward County pick and second team all-state selection…was named a Dade-Broward County All-Star.
An all-state selection on the offensive line by both The Hartford Courant and the New Haven Register…also earned all-league and all-area honors as a senior and was an all-league pick as a junior…on defense, had 37 tackles with seven sacks…team went 8-2 in his senior year…. a state weight lifting champion.
A team co-captain…was a first team all-division, all-county and all-shore (by the Asbury Park Press) pick…has a 3.0 high school grade point average…as a junior was first team all-division and all-county and third team all-shore.
Team co-captain...earned second team all-county honors and was an invitee to the Prince George County All-Star game and the Super 44 All-Star game…rushed for 560 yards on 54 carries and scored seven touchdowns as a senior…team finished with a record of 10-2 in senior year…a two-time second team all-county pick in track…a member of the Academic Honor Roll.
Team captain...arned first team all-conference honors and won the Fairfield County Scholar-Athlete Award…threw for 1,767 yards and 19 touchdowns and rushed for 934 yards and 15 more touchdowns…earned all-league honors as a junior as he threw 20 touchdown passes…was a state finalist for the Wendy's High School Heisman…earned honorable mention all-state honors from the New Haven Register.
Earned first team All-North Jersey and all-league honors…ran for 1,070 yards in his senior year and also caught 31 passes for 365 yards….scored a total of 20 touchdowns…led the team with 85 tackles and five interceptions...had a sack, three caused fumbles and two recoveries…also had a punting average of 39.8 yards…named team MVP…team went 21-1 over the past two seasons and won state championship in 2003.
An all-state pick amongst small schools...named all-area...had 55 tackles in 2004, including six sacks...was third in the state for wrestling, winning the county championship and all-area accolades...a member of the Academic Honor Roll.
A team captain both his junior and senior seasons...two-time Qwinnett County Player of the Week as a senior...recorded 16 tackles for loss and eight sacks in 2004 and made 138 total tackles over the combined 2003 and 2004 seasons...a four-year letterwinner.
Team captain...first team all-county pick and honorable mention all-area on the defensive side…had 25 tackles as a senior…played on both sides of the ball…also plays basketball, baseball and track…was first team all-county pick and team was conference champion.
Began playing organized football during his sophomore year of high school…started his junior season, but only played in three games during his senior year due to a knee injury.
A first-team all-state pick and first-team all-conference selection…team captain who had 87 tackles and ten sacks in senior year…also played fullback and rushed for 14 touchdowns…brother, Jason, is the starting tailback at Michigan State.
Made 52 receptions for over 750 yards and nine touchdowns as a senior…named first team all district for class 5-A...also runs track.


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Stevens was born in 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His family belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church and when Stevens became eligible he enrolled in parochial schools. Stevens's father contributed substantially to the son's early education by providing their home with an extensive library and by encouraging reading. At age twelve Stevens entered public school for boys and began studying classics in Greek and Latin. In high school he became a prominent student, scoring high marks and distinguishing himself as a skillful orator. He also showed early promise as a writer by reporting for the school's newspaper, and after completing his studies in Reading he decided to continue his literary pursuits at Harvard University.
Encouraged by his father, Stevens devoted himself to the literary aspects of Harvard life. By his sophomore year he wrote regularly for the Harvard Advocate, and by the end of his third year, as biographer Samuel French Morse noted in Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life, he had received all of the school's honors for writing. In 1899 Stevens joined the editorial board of the Advocate's rival publication, the Harvard Monthly, and the following year he assumed the board's presidency and became editor. By that time Stevens had already published poems in both the Advocate and the Monthly, and as editor he additionally produced stories and literary sketches. Because there was a frequent shortage of manuscript during his tenure as editor, Stevens often published several of his own works in each issue of the Monthly. He thus gained further recognition on campus as a prolific and multi-talented writer. Unfortunately, his campus literary endeavors ended in 1900 when a shortage of family funds necessitated his withdrawal from the university.
Leaving Harvard was hardly a setback, though, for Stevens was not working towards a college degree and was not particularly invigorated by the school's literary environment. Once out of Harvard, Stevens decided to work as a journalist, and shortly thereafter he began reporting for the New York Evening Post. He published regularly in the newspaper, but he found the work dull and inconsequential. The job proved most worthwhile as a means for Stevens to acquaint himself with New York City. Each day he explored various areas and then recorded his observations in a journal. In the evenings he either attended theatrical and musical productions or remained in his room writing poems or drafting a play.
Stevens soon tired of this life, however, and questioned his father on the possibility of abandoning the newspaper position to entirely devote himself to literature. But his father, while a lover of literature, was also prudent, and he counseled his son to cease writing and commence law studies. Stevens heeded the advice, and in October, 1901, he enrolled at the New York School of Law. Two years later Stevens graduated, and in 1904 he was admitted to the New York Bar. He then worked briefly in a law partnership with former Harvard classmate Lyman Ward. After parting from Ward, Stevens worked for various law firms in New York City. In 1908 he accepted a post with the American Bonding Company, an insurance firm, and he stayed with the company when it was purchased by the Fidelity and Deposit Company.
Stevens's early years with the insurance firm brought great personal change. Financially secure, he proposed marriage to Elsie Viola Kachel, who accepted and became his wife in September, 1909. Two years later Stevens's father died, and in 1912 his mother also died. During this period Stevens apparently wrote no poetry, but he involved himself in New York City's artistic community through his association with several writers, including poets Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams. Of keen interest to Stevens at this time were the art exhibitions at the many museums and galleries in the city. He developed a fondness for modern painting, eventually becoming a connoisseur and collector of Asian art, including painting, pottery, and jewelry. He particularly admired Asian works for their vivid colors and their precision and clarity, qualities that he later imparted to his own art.
By 1913 Stevens was enjoying great success in the field of insurance law. Unlike many aspiring artists, however, he was hardly stifled by steady employment. He soon resumed writing poetry, though in a letter to his wife he confided that writing was "absurd" as well as fulfilling. In 1914 he nonetheless published two poems in the modest periodical Trend, and later that year he produced four more verses for Harriet Monroe's publication, Poetry. None of these poems were included in Stevens's later volumes, but they are often considered his first mature writings.
After he began publishing his poems Stevens changed jobs again, becoming resident vice-president, in New York City, of the Equitable Surety Company (which, in turn, became the New England Equitable Company). He left that position in 1916 to work for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, where he remained employed for the rest of his life, becoming vice-president in 1934.
This period of job changes was also one of impressive literary achievements for Stevens. In 1915 he produced his first important poems, "Peter Quince at the Clavier" and "Sunday Morning," and in 1916 he published his prize-winning play, Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise. Another play, Carlos among the Candles, followed in 1917, and the comic poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" appeared in 1918. During the next few years Stevens began organizing his poems for publication in a single volume. For inclusion in that prospective volume he also produced several longer poems, including the masterful "Comedian as the Letter C." This poem, together with the early "Sunday Morning" and "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," proved key to Stevens's volume Harmonium when it was published in 1923.
Harmonium bears ample evidence of Stevens's wide-ranging talents: an extraordinary vocabulary, a flair for memorable phrasing, an accomplished sense of imagery, and the ability to both lampoon and philosophize. "Peter Quince at the Clavier," among the earliest poems in Harmonium, contains aspects of all these skills. In this poem, a beautiful woman's humiliating encounter with lustful elders becomes a meditation on the nature of beauty (and the beauty of nature). Stevens vividly captures the woman's plight by dramatically contrasting the tranquility of her bath with a jarring interruption by several old folk. Consistent with the narrator's contention that "music is feeling," the woman's plight is emphasized by descriptions of sounds from nature and musical instruments. The poem culminates in a reflection on the permanence of the woman's physical beauty, which, it is declared, exists forever in memory and through death in the union of body and nature: "The body dies; the body's beauty lives. / So evenings die, in their green going, / A wave, interminably flowing."
"Peter Quince at the Clavier," with its notion of immortality as a natural cycle, serves as a prelude to the more ambitious "Sunday Morning," in which cyclical nature is proposed as the sole alternative to Christianity in the theologically bankrupt twentieth century. Here Stevens echoes the theme of "Peter Quince at the Clavier" by writing that "death is the mother of beauty," thus confirming that physical beauty is immortal through death and the consequent consummation with nature. Essentially an analysis of one woman's ennui, "Sunday Morning" ends by stripping the New Testament's Jesus Christ of transcendence and consigning him, too, to immortality void of an afterlife but part of "the heavenly fellowship / of men that perish." In this manner "Sunday Morning" shatters the tenets, or illusion, of Christianity essentially, the spiritual afterlife—and substantiates nature—the joining of corpse to earth as the only channel to immortality. In her volume Wallace Stevens: An Introduction to the Poetry, Susan B. Weston perceived the replacement of Christianity with nature as the essence of the poem, and she called "Sunday Morning" the "revelation of a secular religion."
Less profound, perhaps, but no less impressive are Harmonium's comedic highlights, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" and "The Comedian as the Letter C." In "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" the narrator, a middle-aged poet, delivers an extended, rather flamboyantly embellished, monologue to love in all its embodiments and evocations. He reflects on his own loves and ambitions in such carefree detail that the work seems an amusing alternative to T. S. Eliot's pessimistic poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Like "Sunday Morning," "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" celebrates change, and it further suggests that even in fluctuation there is definition—"that fluttering things have so distinct a shade."
In the mock epic "Comedian as the Letter C" Stevens presents a similarly introspective protagonist, Crispin, who is, or has been, a poet, handyman, musician, and rogue. The poem recounts Crispin's adventures from France to the jungle to a lush, Eden-like land where he establishes his own colony and devotes himself to contemplating his purpose in life. During the course of his adventures Crispin evolves from romantic to realist and from poet to parent, the latter two roles being, according to the poem, mutually antagonistic. The poem ends with Crispin dourly viewing his six daughters as poems and questioning the validity of creating anything that must, eventually, become separate from him.
"The Comedian as the Letter C" is a fairly complex work, evincing Stevens's impressive, and occasionally intimidating, vocabulary and his penchant for obscure humor. Stevens later declared that his own motivations in writing the poem derived from his enthusiasm for "words and sounds." He stated: "I suppose that I ought to confess that by the letter C I meant the sound of the letter C; what was in my mind was to play on that sound throughout the poem. While the sound of that letter has more or less variety ... all its shades maybe said to have a comic aspect. Consequently, the letter C is a comedian."
Although the aforementioned poems are perhaps the most substantial in Harmonium, they are hardly the volume's only noteworthy ones. Also among the more than fifty poems that comprise Stevens's first book are "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," an imagistic poem highly reminiscent of the Japanese poetry form haiku, and "The Emperor of Ice Cream," an eloquent exhortation that death is an inevitable aspect of living. These and the other entries in Harmonium reveal Stevens as a poet of delicate, but determined, sensibility, one whose perspective is precise without being precious, and whose wit is subtle but not subdued. Harriet Monroe, founder and first editor of Poetry, wrote in reviewing Harmonium for her own periodical: "The delight which one breathes like a perfume from the poetry of Wallace Stevens is the natural effluence of his own clear and untroubled and humorously philosophical delight in the beauty of things as they are."
Few critics, however, shared Monroe's enthusiasm, or even her familiarity, concerning Harmonium following its publication in 1923. The book was ignored in most critical quarters, and was dismissed as a product of mere dilettantism by some of the few reviewers that acknowledged Stevens's art. Although apparently undaunted by the poor reception accorded Harmonium, Stevens produced only a few poems during the next several years. Part of this unproductiveness was attributed by Stevens to the birth of his daughter, Holly, in 1924. Like his autobiographical character Crispin, Stevens found that parenting thwarted writing. In a letter to Harriet Monroe he noted that the responsibilities of parenthood were a "terrible blow to poor literature."
In 1933, nine years after his daughter's birth, Stevens finally resumed writing steadily. The following year he published his second poetry collection, Ideas of Order, and in 1935 he produced an expanded edition of that same work. The poems of Ideas of Order are, generally, sparer and gloomier than those of Harmonium. Prominent among these bleak works is "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," comprised of fifty verses on subjects such as aging and dying. Perhaps in reference to these fifty short verses, the racist title refers to the litter that, in Stevens's opinion, accumulated in blacks' cemeteries. He ends this poem by noting the futility of attempts to thwart nature and by commending those individuals who adapt to change: "Union of the weakest develops strength / Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge / One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? / But the wise avenges by building his city in snow.
Stevens more clearly explicated his notion of creative imagination in "The Idea of Order in Key West," among the few invigorating poems in Ideas of Order and one of the most important works in his entire canon. In this poem Stevens wrote of strolling along the beach with a friend and discovering a girl singing to the ocean. Stevens declares that the girl has created order out of chaos by fashioning a sensible song from her observations of the swirling sea. The concluding stanza extolls the virtues of the singer's endeavor ("The maker's rage to order words of the sea") and declares that the resulting song is an actual aspect of the singer. In his book Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem, Frank Doggett called the concluding stanza Stevens's "hymn to the ardor of the poet to give order to the world by his command of language."
Following the publication of Ideas of Order Stevens began receiving increasing recognition as an important and unique poet. Not all of that recognition, however, was entirely positive. Some critics charged that the obscurity, abstraction, and self-contained, art-for-art's-sake tenor of his work were inappropriate and ineffective during a time of international strife that included widespread economic depression and increasing fascism in Europe. Stevens, comfortably ensconced in his half-acre home in Hartford, responded that the world was improving, not degenerating further. He held himself relatively detached from politics and world affairs, although he briefly championed leading Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, and contended that his art actually constituted the most substantial reality. "Life is not people and scene," he argued, "but thought and feeling. The world is myself. Life is myself."
Stevens contended that the poet's purpose was to interpret the external world of thought and feeling through the imagination. Like his alter-ego Crispin, Stevens became preoccupied with articulating his perception of the poet's purpose, and he sought to explore that theme in his 1936 book, Owl's Clover. But that book comprised of five explications of various individuals' relations to art proved verbose and thus uncharacteristically excessive. Immensely displeased, Stevens immediately dismantled the volume and reshaped portions of the work for inclusion in a forthcoming collection.
That volume, The Man with the Blue Guitar, succeeded where Owl's Clover failed, presenting a varied, eloquently articulated contention of the same theme the poet, and therefore the imagination, as the explicator of thought and feeling that had undone him earlier. In the title poem Stevens defends the poet's responsibility to shape and define perceived reality: "They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'" For Stevens, the blue guitar was the power of imagination, and the power of imagination, in turn, was "the power of the mind over the possibility of things" and "the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal."
The Man with the Blue Guitar, particularly the thirty-three-part title poem, constituted a breakthrough for Stevens by indicating a new direction: an inexhaustive articulation of the imagination as the supreme perception and of poetry as the supreme fiction. Harold Bloom, in acknowledging Stevens's debacle Owl's Clover, described The Man with the Blue Guitar as the poet's "triumph over ... literary anxieties" and added that with its completion Stevens renewed his poetic aspirations and vision. "The poet who had written The Man with the Blue Guitar had weathered his long crisis," Bloom wrote, "and at fifty-eight was ready to begin again."
In subsequent volumes Stevens singlemindedly concentrated on his idea of poetry as the perfect synthesis of reality and the imagination. Consequently, much of his poetry is about poetry. In his next collection, Parts of a World, his writing frequently adopts a solipsistic perspective in exemplifying and explicating his definition of poetry. Such poems as "Prelude to Objects," "Add This to Rhetoric," and "Of Modern Poetry" all address, to some extent, the self-referential nature of poetry. In "Of Modern Poetry" Stevens defined the genre as "the finding of a satisfaction, and may / Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman / Combing. The poem of the act of the mind." In Wallace Stevens: An Introduction to the Poetry, Susan B. Weston wrote that in "Of Modern Poetry," as with many poems in Parts of a World, "Stevens cannot say what the mind wants to hear; he must be content to write about a poetry that would express what the mind wants to hear, and to render the satisfaction that might ensue." She added, "Stevens's is a conditional world indeed."
Stevens followed Parts of a World with Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, which is usually considered his greatest poem on the nature of poetry. This long poem, more an exploration of a definition than it is an actual definition, exemplifies the tenets of supreme fiction even as it articulates them. The poem is comprised of a prologue, three substantial sections, and a coda. The first main section, entitled "It Must Be Abstract," recalls Harmonium's themes by hailing art as the new deity in a theologically deficient age. Abstraction is necessary, Stevens declares, because it fosters the sense of mystery necessary to provoke interest and worship from humanity. The second long portion, "It Must Change," recalls "Sunday Morning" in citing change as that which ever renews and sustains life: "Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace / And for the particulars of rapture come." And in "It Must Give Pleasure," Stevens expresses his conviction that poetry must always be "a thing final in itself and, therefore, good: / One of the vast repetitions final in themselves and, therefore, good, the going round / And round and round, the merely going round, / Until merely going round is a final good, / The way wine comes at a table in a wood." Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction concludes with verses describing the poet's pursuit of supreme fiction as "a war that never ends." Stevens, directing these verses to an imaginary warrior, wrote: "Soldier, there is a war between the mind / And sky, between thought and day and night. It is / For that the poet is always in the sun, / Patches the moon together in his room / to his Virgilian cadences, up down, / Up down. It is a war that never ends." This is perhaps Stevens's most impressive description of his own sense of self, and in it he provides his most succinct appraisal of the poet's duty.
Although Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction elucidates Stevens's notions of poetry and poet, it was not intended by him to serve as a definitive testament. Rather, he considered the poem as a collection of ideas about the idea of supreme fiction. Writing to Henry Church, to whom the poem is dedicated, Stevens warned that it was not a systematized philosophy but mere notes—"the nucleus of the matter is contained in the title." He also reaffirmed his contention that poetry was the supreme fiction, explaining that poetry was supreme because "the essence of poetry is change and the essence of change is that it gives pleasure."
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction was published as a small volume in 1942 and was subsequently included in the 1947 collection, Transport to Summer. Also featured in the collection is Esthetique du Mal, another long poem first published separately. In this poem Stevens explored the poetic imagination's response to specific provocations: pain and evil. Seconding philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Stevens asserted that evil was a necessary aspect of life, and he further declared that it was both inspirational and profitable to the imagination. This notion is most clearly articulated in the poem's eighth section, which begins: "The death of Satan was a tragedy / For the imagination. A capital / Negation destroyed him in his tenement / And, with him, many blue phenomena." In a later stanza, one in which Bloom found the poem's "central polemic," Stevens emphasizes the positive aspect of evil: "The tragedy, however, may have begun, / Again, in the imagination's new beginning, / In the yes of the realist spoken because he must / Say yes, spoken because under every no / Lay a passion for yes that had never been broken." In Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, Bloom called Esthetique du Mal Stevens's "major humanistic polemic" of the mid-1940s.
In 1950 Stevens published his last new poetry collection, The Auroras of Autumn. The poems in this volume show Stevens further refining and ordering his ideas about the imagination and poetry. Among the most prominent works in this volume is "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," which constitutes still another set of notes toward a supreme fiction. Here Stevens finds the sublime in the seemingly mundane by recording his contemplations of a given evening. The style here is spare and abstract, resulting in a poem that revels in ambiguity and the elusiveness of definitions: "It is not the premise that reality / Is solid. It may be a shade that traverses / A dust, a force that traverses a shade." In this poem Stevens once again explicates as the supreme synthesis of perception and the imagination and produces a poem about poetry: "This endlessly elaborating poem / Displays the theory of poetry, / As the life of poetry." Other poems in The Auroras of Autumn are equally self-reflexive, but they are ultimately less ambitious and less provocative, concerned more with rendering the mundane through abstraction and thus prompting a sense of mystery and, simultaneously, order. As fellow poet Louise Bogan noted in a New Yorker review of the collection, only Stevens "can describe the simplicities of the natural world with more direct skill," though she added that his "is a natural world strangely empty of human beings."
Stevens followed The Auroras of Autumn with a prose volume, The Necessary Angel, in which he articulated his poetic notions without resorting to abstraction and obfuscation. In the essay "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" he addressed the imagination's response to adversity, and in "The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet" he once again championed the imagination as the medium toward a reality transcending mere action and rationalization. Consistent in the volume is Stevens's willingness to render his ideas in a precise, accessible manner. Thus The Necessary Angel considerably illuminates his poetry.
By the early 1950s Stevens was regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary poets, an artist whose precise abstractions exerted substantial influence on other writers. Despite this widespread recognition, Stevens kept his position at the Hartford company, perhaps fearing that he would become isolated if he left his lucrative post. In his later years with the firm, Stevens amassed many writing awards, including the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the 1951 National Book Award for The Auroras of Autumn, and several honorary doctorates. His greatest accolades, however, came with the 1955 publication of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and another National Book Award. In this volume Stevens gathered nearly all of his previously published verse, save Owl's Clover, and added another twenty-five poems under the title "The Rock." Included in this section are some of Stevens's finest and most characteristically abstract poems. Appropriately, the final poem in "The Rock" is entitled "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself," in which reality and the imagination are depicted as fusing at the instant of perception: "That scrawny cry—it was / A chorister whose c preceded the choir. / It was part of the colossal sun, / Surrounded by its choral rings, / Still far away. It was like / A new knowledge of reality."
After publishing his collected verse Stevens succumbed increasingly to cancer and was repeatedly hospitalized. He died in August, 1955. In the years since his death Stevens's reputation has remained formidable. The obscurity and abstraction of his poetry has proven particularly appealing among students and academicians and has consequently generated extensive criticism. Among the most respected interpreters of Stevens's work are Helen Hennessy Vendler, who has demonstrated particular expertise on the longer poems, and Harold Bloom, whose Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate is probably the most provocative and substantial, if also dense and verbose, of the many volumes attending to Stevens's entire canon. For Bloom, Stevens is "a vital part of the American mythology."
- Harmonium (poetry; includes "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," "The Comedian as the Letter C," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, 1923, revised edition, 1931.
- Ideas of Order (poetry; includes "Farewell to Florida," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Academic Discourse at Havana," "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press, 1935, enlarged edition, Knopf, 1936.
- Owl's Clover (poetry; also see below), Alcestis Press, 1936.
- The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems (poetry; includes "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling"), Knopf, 1937.
- Parts of a World (poetry; includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War"), Knopf, 1942.
- Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (poetry; also see below), Cummington Press, 1942.
- Esthetique du Mal (poetry; also see below), Cummington Press, 1945.
- Transport to Summer (poetry; includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), Knopf, 1947.
- Three Academic Pieces: The Realm of Resemblance, Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, Of Ideal Time and Choice (essays; also see below), Cummington Press, 1947.
- A Primitive Like an Orb (poetry; also see below), Gotham Book Mart, 1948.
- The Auroras of Autumn (poetry; includes "The Auroras of Autumn," "Large Red Man Reading," "In a Bad Time," "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract," "Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight," "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," and "A Primitive Like an Orb"), Knopf, 1950.
- The Relations between Poetry and Painting (lecture), Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
- The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (essays; includes "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words," "The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet," "Effects of Analogy," "The Realm of Resemblance," "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together," and "Of Ideal Time and Choice" from Three Academic Pieces), Faber, 1960.
- Selected Poems, Fortune Press, 1952.
- Selected Poems, Faber, 1953.
- Raoul Duly: A Note (nonfiction), Pierre Beres, 1953.
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section featuring "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf, 1954, reprinted, Random House, 1982.
- Opus Posthumous (includes Owl's Clover and essays "The Irrational Element in Poetry," "The Whole Man: Perspectives," "Horizons," "Preface to Time of Year," "John Crowe Ransom: Tennessean," and "Adagia"), edited by Samuel French Morse, Knopf, 1957, reprinted, Random House, 1982.
- Poems by Wallace Stevens, edited by Morse, Vintage Books, 1959.
- Letters of Wallace Stevens, edited by daughter, Holly Stevens, Knopf, 1966.
- The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens, Knopf, 1971.
- Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America (New York, NY), 1997.
Further Readings
- Alvarez, A., Stewards of Excellence: Studies in Modern English and American Poets, Scribner, 1958.
- Baird, James, The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.
- Bates, Milton J., Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, University of California Press, 1985.
- Beckett, Lucy, Wallace Stevens, Cambridge University Press, 1974.
- Benarnou, Michel, Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination, Princeton University Press, 1972.
- Berry, S. L., Wallace Stevens, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1997.
- Blackmur, R. P., The Double Agent: Essays in Craft and Elucidation, Peter Smith, 1962.
- Blessing, Richard Allen, Wallace Stevens' "Whole Harmonium," Syracuse University Press, 1970.
- Bloom, Harold, Figures of Capable Imagination, Seabury, 1976.
- Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, Cornell University Press, 1976.
- Bornstein, George, Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens, University of Chicago Press, 1976.
- Boroff, Marie, Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore, University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Boroff, editor, Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1963.
- Brazeau, Peter, Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered, Random House, 1983.
- Brown, Ashley, and Robert S. Haller, editors, The Achievement of Wallace Stevens, Lippincott, 1962.
- Brown, Merle E., Wallace Stevens: The Poem as Act, Wayne State University Press, 1970.
- Burney, William, Wallace Stevens, Twayne, 1968.
- Buttel, Robert, Wallace Stevens: The Making of "Harmonium," Princeton University Press, 1967.
- Buttel and Frank Doggett, editors, Wallace Stevens: A Celebration, Princeton University Press, 1980.
- Doggett, Stevens' Poetry of Thought, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966.
- Doggett, Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
- Donaghue, Denis, Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry, Faber, 1965.
- Donaghue, The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature, Faber, 1968.
- Ehrenpreis, Irvin, editor, Wallace Stevens: A Critical Anthology, Penguin, 1973.
- Enck, John J., Wallace Stevens: Images and Judgments, Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
- Filreis, Alan, Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties & Literary Radicalism, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1994.
- Hines, Thomas J., The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Phenomenological Parallels With Husserl and Heidegger, Bucknell University Press, 1976.
- Kenner, Hugh, A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers, Knopf, 1975.
- Kermode, Frank, Wallace Stevens, Oliver & Boyd, 1960.
- Kessler, Edward, Images of Wallace Stevens, Rutgers University Press, 1972.
- LaGuardia, David M., Advance on Chaos: The Sanctifying Imagination of Wallace Stevens, University Press of New England, 1983.
- Lentricchia, Frank, The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, University of California Press, 1968.
- Lentricchia, Frank, Modernist Quartet, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1994.
- Litz, A. Walton, Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens, Oxford University Press, 1972.
- Lombardi, Thomas F., Wallace Stevens and the Pennsylvania Keystone: The Influence of Origins on his Life and Poetry, Susquehanna University Press (Selinsgrove, PA), 1996.
- McCann, Janet, Wallace Stevens Revisited: "The Celestial Possible", Twayne (New York), 1995.
- McNamara, Peter L., editor, Critics on Wallace Stevens, University of Miami Press, 1972.
- Morris, Adalaide Kirby, Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith, Princeton University Press, 1974.
- Morse, Samuel French, Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life, Pegasus, 1970.
- Murphy, Charles, M., Wallace Stevens: A Spiritual Poet in a Secular Age, Paulist Press (New York, NY), 1997.
- Nasser, Eugene Paul, Wallace Stevens: An Anatomy of Figuration, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.
- O'Connor, William Van, The Shaping Spirit: A Study of Wallace Stevens, Regnery, 1950.
- Pack, Robert, Wallace Stevens: An Approach to His Poetry and Thought, Rutgers University Press, 1958.
- Perlis, Alan, Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes, Bucknell University Press, 1976.
- Rae, Patricia, The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound, and Stevens, Associated University Presses, 1997.
- Richardson, Joan, Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, Morrow, 1986.
- Riddel, Joseph N., The Clairvoyant Eye: The Poetry and Poetics of Wallace Stevens, Louisiana State University Press, 1965.
- Rosu, Anca, The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa), 1995.
- Schulze, Robin G., The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1995.
- Serio, John N., Wallace Sevens: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
- Serio, John N., Teaching Wallace Stevens: Practical Essays, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville), 1994.
- Sexson, Michael, The Quest of Self in the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Edwin Mellen, 1981.
- Stern, Herbert J., Wallace Stevens: Art of Uncertainty, University of Michigan Press, 1966.
- Stevens, Holly, Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens, Knopf, 1977.
- Sukenick, Ronald, Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure, New York University Press, 1967.
- Tindall, William York, Wallace Stevens, University of Minnesota Press, 1961.
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 3, 1980, Volume 12, 1984.
- Vendler, Helen Hennessy, On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems, Harvard University Press, 1969.
- Vendler, Wallace Stevens, Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Voros, Gyorgyi, Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, University of Iowa Press, 1997.
- Wells, Henry W., Introduction to Wallace Stevens, Indiana University Press, 1964.
- Weston, Susan B., Wallace Stevens: An Introduction to the Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1977.
- Whiting, Anthony, The Never-Resting Mind: Wallace Stevens' Romantic Irony, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1996.
- Woodman, Leonora, Stanza My Stone: Wallace Stevens and the Hermetic Tradition, Purdue University Press, 1983.
- Woodward, Kathleen, At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Later Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, Ohio State University Press, 1980.
- American Poetry Review, September-October, 1978.
- Arizona Quarterly, autumn, 1955.
- Catholic World, July-August, 1995, p. 154.
- Colorado Quarterly, summer, 1960.
- Commonweal, September 23, 1955.
- Comparative Literature, winter, 1959.
- Contemporary Literature, autumn, 1975.
- Critical Quarterly, autumn, 1960.
- Criticism, winter, 1960, summer, 1965.
- Encounter, November, 1979.
- English Journal, October, 1959.
- Georgia Review, spring, 1976, summer, 1976.
- Hudson Review, autumn, 1957.
- Journal of Modern Literature, May, 1982.
- Kenyon Review, winter, 1957, winter, 1964.
- Literary Review, autumn, 1963.
- Modern Language Quarterly, September, 1969.
- Nation, April 5, 1947.
- New England Quarterly, December, 1971.
- New York Times Magazine, August 28, 1994, p. 72.
- New Yorker, October 28, 1950.
- Poetry, March, 1924, December, 1931, February, 1937, January, 1956.
- Sewanee Review, autumn, 1945, spring, 1952, winter, 1957.
- Southern Review, July, 1971, July, 1976, October, 1979, January, 1982.
- Studies in Romanticism, spring, 1982.
- Western Review, autumn, 1955.
- Yale Review, spring, 1955, spring, 1967, winter, 1982.
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Wallace Stevens
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Poems By Wallace Stevens
- Anecdote of the Jar
- Anecdote of the Jar
- Another Weeping Woman
- Arcades of Philadelphia the Past
- Banal Sojourn
- Bantams in Pine-Woods
- Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight
- The Candle a Saint
- Carlos among the Candles
- Certain Phenomena of Sound
- Colloquy with a Polish Aunt
- The Common Life
- The Cuban Doctor
- The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
- A Dish of Peaches in Russia
- The Doctor of Geneva
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
- Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
- Fabliau of Florida
- From the Misery of Don Joost
- Good Man, Bad Woman
- Gubbinal
- Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
- Homunculus et La Belle Etoile
- The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm
- Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
- The Idea of Order at Key West
- Indian River
- from The Indigo Glass in the Grass
- Infanta Marina
- "Lettres d'un Soldat"
- Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery
- The Load of Sugar-Cane
- The Man on the Dump
- The Man with the Blue Guitar
- Nomad Exquisite
- Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
- Of Hartford in a Purple Light
- Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
- Of Mere Being
- Of Modern Poetry
- Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds
- Of the Surface of Things
- Palace of the Babies
- from The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
- from Peter Parasol
- Peter Quince at the Clavier
- Phases
- Phases
- The Place of the Solitaires
- The Plain Sense of Things
- Ploughing on Sunday
- The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain
- Poetry Is a Destructive Force
- A Postcard from the Volcano
- A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
- The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
- The Snow Man
- The Snow Man
- St. Armorer's Church from the Outside
- Sunday Morning
- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
- Things of August
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise
- The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract
- The Weeping Burgher
Articles by Wallace Stevens
Articles about Wallace Stevens
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by Wallace Stevens
How does a small literary magazine survive 100 years?
by Wallace Stevens
By Wallace Stevens
Jennifer Michael Hecht explains the philosophy behind "The Idea of Order at Key West."
by Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens
It's Like a New Reality, Man: A Discussion of Wallace Stevens's "Not Ideas about the Thing, But the Thing Itself"Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Nada Gordon, and Lawrence Joseph.
The strange career of editor and publisher Ronald Lane Latimer.
by Wallace Stevens
Vijay Seshadri warms to Mark Strand's wintry poem "The Idea."
In his famous poem, Wallace Stevens serves up ice cream at a funeral
Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter.
Taking Stevens and Pastan into therapy.
Helen Vendler on last poems by Stevens and Merrill.
By Wallace Stevens
What does snow have to do with race?
by Wallace Stevens (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Susan Howe, Dee Morris, and Nancy Kuhl.
Archival recordings of the poet Wallace Stevens, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1954, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, NY.
Read by Hana Bajramovic.
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Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality. Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered a willfully difficult poet. But he was also acknowledged as an eminent abstractionist and a provocative thinker, and that reputation has continued since his death. In 1975, for instance, noted literary critic Harold Bloom, whose writings on Stevens include the imposing Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, called him "the best and most representative American poet of our time."
Stevens was born in 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His family belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church and when Stevens became eligible...


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Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty ImagesPut On A Happy FaceMost friends of Michelle Obama say the First Lady goes to great lengths to avoid negative thinking, no matter how bad the situation. It seems Michelle's parents, Marian and Fraser, taught her early on the beauty and benefit of waking up each morning thankful and appreciative of the life she has. Michelle has continued that practice throughout her life by meditating on the day that lies ahead, with positive thoughts of what those 24-hours will bring. Embracing an attitude of gratitude and appreciation can go a long way toward making every day and a good day. Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty ImagesNever Stop Learning From OthersMichelle has often drawn inspiration from people who've led extraordinary lives, in particular women. She chose role models who spoke to her passions, no matter their background, including the late Civil Rights leader Barbara Jordan and Senator Barbara Boxer. Michelle understood that reading about and understanding the trials and tribulations of successful people in any field would also give her the facts, focus and fuel to master the profession of her choice. Pete Souza / The White HouseMaking a List and Checking It TwiceMichelle is the master of creating lists for everything she does in life, according to her friends. Since she isn't a big a fan of the unknown, the First Lady often plans long-term as well as day-to-day. Her lists keeps her sane, structured and organize in a life that can be overwhelming at times. So channel your inner Michelle by getting a notebook and jotting down big and small things you'd like to accomplish now and in the future. Write down every idea no matter how far-reaching or far-fetched it may be. Keep the list with you and refer to it often. 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Students in the Respiratory Therapy program at Washington State Community College (WSCC) recently took top honors at the 34th Annual Ohio Society for Respiratory Care (OSRC) conference and competition, which includes lectures on pulmonary medicine and respiratory care. A team of four WSCC Respiratory Therapy students took part in the annual knowledge bowl competition.
"In Respiratory Therapy circles, we affectionately call it the 'Sputum Bowl Competition'," explains Dr. Rob Kinker, WSCC Respiratory Therapy program director. "It has a format similar to the game show Jeopardy where a question is read and the first team to buzz in gets a chance to answer. If they are correct, points are awarded, if not, points are deducted."
Washington State Community College's team included students: Lee Hermandorfer, Ann McHale, Adam Roub, and Jeff Bucy. Kathy Baker, WSCC clinical education director, coached the Respiratory Therapy team. They competed against eight other teams from colleges and universities across Ohio.
"The team breezed through the preliminary rounds to reach the finals. In first round of finals they were selected by random draw to play against the toughest team in the match, Cincinnati State, but they ultimately went on to win the championship match," says Kinker. The WSCC team went undefeated, winning each match by a minimum of five questions with a highest score of fifteen.
"We are all extremely proud of their performance. This was the first time we've won at the OSRC Meeting, which is quite an accomplishment," says Dr. Kinker. "The WSCC team is now invited to represent the state of Ohio at the National competition in New Orleans this November, if we are able to raise the funds."
Those wanting to donate can send a check to the Washington State Community College Foundation Bob Fischer Fund. The Bob Fischer fund was developed to support Respiratory students, especially for activities such as travel for competitions. Bob Fischer, former director of clinical education with the Respiratory program, was posthumously recognized at the OSCR meeting with a scholarship in his name.


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I quit my job on Saturday September 14, to my understanding labor code section 202 states that if i quit without giving a 72 hr notice then my former employer has 72 hr to pay me my final wages. I didn't receive my final paycheck until Saturday September 28. My final paycheck should have included my vacation time and all the hours worked on my time card. As i understand it labor code section 203 states that if my former employer willfully fails to pay within the 72 hr time period, then they are subjected to pay me late penalties. My final paycheck only included the hours on my time card excluding my accrued vacation time. To this day i still have yet to receive my unpaid vacation time or any late penalties. Do i have a case to receive the money i am owed?
You are entitled to all of your accrued and unpaid vacation. In addition, the employer is liable for waiting time penalties of up to a thirty days for failing to correctly pay all of your wages, including vacation, within 72 hours.Ask a similar question
You now have several options.
You can personally demand the payment of the still due amounts plus penalties, but it is unlikely that will get anything done.
You can hire an attorney to write a demand letter, and perhaps you will get satisfaction.
You can file an administrative complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, also known as the Labor Commissioner's Office. It is no charge to you, and the agency will assist you in procuring your money.
You can file a lawsuit. One way is a simple small claims lawsuit if the amount in controversy is low enough. It is a quick and cheap alternative. The other is to file a superior court lawsuit. While you do not have to have an attorney represent you in that venue, it makes a great deal of sense.
There are pros and cons of each approach. You should consult with an experienced employment law attorney who is not overly focused on simply earning fees to explore those options and decide how to proceed.
Good luck to you.
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You are correct that California law requires employers to pay an employee's final wages at the time the employer ends the employment, or within 72 hours if the employee resigns without giving 72 hours notice. "Final wages" consist of regular pay, overtime pay, accrued and unused vacation pay, PTO, commissions that can be calculated, some bonuses and perhaps other components. It does not include unused sick leave.
If the employer does not pay as required, there is a penalty against the employer and in favor of the employee: the employee's pay continues as if the employee were still working, every day until the employer pays in full, up to a maximum of 30 days. The employee is entitled to interest at 10 per cent per annum on the unpaid amount. Also, if the employee must go to court to get his or her pay, then the employee is awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs of suit.
My guess is that your total claim, even with interest and penalties, is less than $10,000. This makes it impractical to file a lawsuit in Superior Court, though it is an option. But even if you are owed somewhat more $10,000, Superior Court is not a good option because it now takes a very long time to get through the process, given the budget shortages in the state. I agree with Mr. Pedersen that Small Claims Court is a better option.
The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) is a sub-agency within the California Department of Industrial Relations. http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/. Some people refer to the DLSE as the Labor Commissioner. The DLSE enforces California's wage and hour laws, including those pertaining to overtime, rest and meal breaks, and more. This would be the most appropriate avenue to pursue your claim, although it is slow. The link for information on filing a wage claim is here: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm.
If you wish to use an attorney, you can find a plaintiffs employment attorney on the web site of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA). CELA is the largest and most influential bar association in the state for attorneys who represent working people. The web site is www.cela.org. Click on "Find a CELA Member" and you can search by location and practice area. Many CELA attorneys represent clients throughout the state.
I hope you can resolve your situation and wish you the best.
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If your employer willfully withhold your pay and earned and unused vacation time, you are owed all wages including earned and unused vacation PLUS the law states that your employer "shall" pay your attorney. Call an employment law attorney to discuss. Many of us offer a free initial phone consultation and may be willing to write a demand letter to your former employer and get what is owed to you plus their pay.Ask a similar question
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I fail to see how targeting civilians will defeat Hamas.
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Residents in the UAE are paying as much as Dh50,000 (over $13,500) to create a "winter wonderland" [2] experience on their private properties.
Ben Elliott-Smith, Managing Director at Desert Snow, a winter effects company in Dubai, told Gulf News that business has massively picked up this year in the lead up to Christmas.
"Last year was our first year of business [but] this year we are four times busier," he said
On Tuesday, the day before Christmas, Desert Snow were completely booked with back to back jobs at private villas.
Elliot-Smith says many customers are after complete packages including decorations, frosted plants, and snowmen and, of course, the faux-snow on the lawn.
Packages start from around Dh5,000 but can cost as much as Dh50,000 depending on decorations and how many days the snow machines are rented.
Desert Snow uses biodegradable, environmentally-friendly products to create the winter snow effect. Elliot-Smith says the big difference between their product and the real thing is that Desert Snow is not cold and it does not melt in the heat. But otherwise, he says, it's very much the same. It can be clumped together into a snowball, and footprints are left as you walk through.
Since October, Desert Snow has been completely booked out as Christmas in the UAE becomes increasingly popular among the expatriate communit [3]y.
Elliot-Smith says the majority of Christmas customers are expatriates but that throughout the year Desert Snow services are in demand from all nationalities, including Emirati families, who want to create a winter experience for their children or for private parties.
Along with private villas, Desert Snow decorates shopping malls and theme parks.
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Amidst recent reports claiming they are more than just friends, Zac Efron opened up about how his good friend Rumer Willis is doing as her mother, Demi Moore, continues to struggle with personal issues.
She co-stars alongside her in the upcoming movie "LOL: Laughing Out Loud," and Miley Cyrus is said to have taken to Facebook to defend Demi Moore just as it has been revealed that the "Ghost" actress has checked into a Utah rehab facility.
It's been nearly two weeks since she was rushed to the hospital after going into convulsions, and now Demi Moore's whereabouts following her emergency visit to a Los Angeles, CA medical facility have been discovered
While speculation over the location of her recovery has had the Internet abuzz, a report from E! Online tells that the 49-year-old has checked into Cirque Lodge in Utah.
She ditched her family-friendly image long ago, and Miley Cyrus continues to display her complete transition to adulthood both on and offscreen.
Most recently, the former "Hannah Montana" star can be seen playing her role of Lola while romping around in the sack during a just debuted clip from her upcoming movie "LOL: Laughing Out Loud".
It has been a really rough time for Demi Moore as of late, and it seems the recently divorced actress is dealing with some personal issues.
According to an inside source, the "Ghost" gal was partying excessively and barely eating leading up to her breakdown last week.
It's no secret she's having a difficult time in her life, and while Demi Moore is recovering in a Los Angeles, CA hospital, her kids are spending quality time with dad, Bruce Willis.
A source told E! News that daughters Tallulah and Rumer have been going about their lives and are reportedly hanging out at their "Sixth Sense" actor dad's West L.A. condo where Tallulah is currently situated.
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Rules Of Solitaire
Solitaire for one player
Very easy game for anyone to play.
The wooden board is laid out with a ball in every hole except the central one.
The player must take all balls off the board one at a time, except the last one, which should be left in the central hole, if you can. The removed balls are stored in the outer groove.
A move is affected by one ball jumping over an adjacent one into a vacant hole beyond. Any direction is permitted except diagonally. The ball jumped over is then removed from the board.
A player must pay attention not to leave a ball too far from the others because of the difficulty which may be found in reaching and removing it.
Very addictive, you will just keep on playing until you win.
Alternative play.
Instead of the centre hole leave any other hole empty and try to end up with the last board in the same hole.
Rules of Fox and Geese
Fox and Geese for two players
Fox and geese can also be played with this board and marbles, in this game 18 marbles are used normally 17 of one colour as the Geese and one alternative colour as the Fox (Always use a clearly identifiable marble as the fox easy to see and stops some of the possible cheating moves when you are not looking.
The board is laid out with the Fox in the centre and all the geese at one end.
Fox & Geese is a game of inequality. The geese cannot capture the fox but aim, through the benefit of numbers, to hem the fox in so that he cannot move. The objective of the fox, on the other hand, is to capture geese until it becomes impossible for them to trap him.
layer's toss a coin to decide who will play the fox - the geese move first. Players take turns to move a goose or the fox to an adjacent point along a line. However, the geese are restricted to being able to move directly forwards, diagonally forwards or sideways only.
Upon the fox's turn, if a goose is adjacent to the fox with an empty point directly behind, the fox may capture that goose by hopping over it into the empty square and removing the goose from the board.
Captured pieces are never replayed onto the board and remain captured for the remainder of the game. The game is finished when a player loses either by being reduced to two pieces or by being unable to move.
Like all unequal games, it makes sense to play an even number of games, each player alternating between playing the fox and playing the geese. The player who wins the most games wins the match.