Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Wallace Stevens'
<em>The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder</em> <br>a conversation with Richard Wilbur
In an interview with Arlo Haskell, Richard Wilbur discusses his relationships with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens, his years living in Key West, his real feelings about 'formal poetry,' and his place in the republic of letters.
The Trouble with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens
"Robert Frost was on the beach this morning and is coming to dinner this evening." So did Wallace Stevens write to his wife Elsie in February of 1935 from the Casa Marina, a hotel on the Atlantic Ocean where he spent part of each winter in Key West for nearly 20 years. Frost and Stevens today are broadly acknowledged as literary peers, but in 1935 the two poets' reputations were leagues apart. Frost had won the Pulitzer Prize twice, while Stevens had published only a single volume, <em>Harmonium</em>, more than a decade earlier. While Stevens had earned the approval of influential readers including <em>Poetry</em> editor Harriet Monroe, Frost was not among them, once complaining that he didn't like Stevens's work "because it purports to make me think."
Hurricane Ike, part two: parl-parling Wallace Stevens
That's Ike at 4:15 local time, with the eye just north of Pinar del Rio in western Cuba. Wind speeds increased here in Key West throughout the morning and early afternoon, with sustained winds of around 40 mph and...
Transport to Summer
So you're home again, Redwood Roamer, and ready To feast . . . Slice the mango, Naaman, and dress it With white wine, sugar and lime juice. Then bring it, After we've drunk the Moselle, to the thickest shade...
With love, Wallace
Wallace Stevens began visiting South Florida and the Keys in the early 1920s with his good friend Judge Arthur Powell. Stevens was a director at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, and these were prinicipally business trips, with a...
Hemingway Knocked Wallace Stevens into a Puddle and Bragged About It
I first heard of the fist-fight between Ernest Hemingway and Wallace Stevens in KWLS co-founder Lynn Kaufelt's book, Key West Writers and Their Houses. It didn't ring quite true, somehow, and yet the story's skeleton alone begged frequent repetition. Hemingway,...
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