<P> `` Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird '' is a poem from Wallace Stevens ' first book of poetry , Harmonium . The poem consists of thirteen short , separate sections , each of which mentions blackbirds in some way . Although inspired by haiku , none of the sections meet the traditional definition of haiku . It was first published in October 1917 by Alfred Kreymborg in Others : An Anthology of the New Verse and two months later in the December issue of Others : A Magazine of the New Verse . </P>
<P> `` Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird '' is a poem from Wallace Stevens ' first book of poetry , Harmonium . The poem consists of thirteen short , separate sections , each of which mentions blackbirds in some way . Although inspired by haiku , none of the sections meet the traditional definition of haiku . It was first published in October 1917 by Alfred Kreymborg in Others : An Anthology of the New Verse and two months later in the December issue of Others : A Magazine of the New Verse . </P>
when was thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird written
when was thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird written
October 1917
October 1917