Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination. POEMS INCLUDED: Academic Discourse At Havana The American Sublime Anecdote Of The Jar Anecdote Of The Prince Of Peacocks Anglais Mort A Florence Arrival At The Waldorf Asides On The Oboe The Auroras Of Autumn Bantams In Pine-woods Blanche Mccarthy Burghers Of Petty Death The Comedian As The Letter C: 4. The Idea Of A Colony Connoisseur Of Chaos The Course Of A Particular Credences Of Summer A Discovery Of Thought Disillusionment Of Ten O'clock Domination Of Black The Emperor Of Ice-cream Esthetique Du Mal Farewell To Florida Farewell Without A Guitar Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour A High-toned Old Christian Woman The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm The Idea Of Order At Key West July Mountain Le Monocle De Mon Oncle Less And Less Human, O Savage Spirit Man And Bottle The Man On The Dump The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The Man With The Blue Guitar Men Made Out Of Words The Motive For Metaphor Mozart, 1935 Mrs. Alfred Uruguay No Possum, No Sop, No Taters Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: It Must Be Abstract Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: It Must Change Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: It Must Give Pleasure Of Heaven Considered As A Tomb Of Mere Being Of Modern Poetry An Ordinary Evening In New Haven Peter Quince At The Clavier The Pleasures Of Merely Circulating The Poems Of Our Climate Poetry Is A Destructive Force A Postcard From The Volcano A Primitive Like And Orb Prologues To What Is Possible A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts The River Of Rivers In Connecticut The Rock Sailing After Lunch The Sense Of The Sleight-of-hand Man The Snow Man Study Of Two Pears Sunday Morning Tea At The Palaz Of Hoon To An Old Philosopher In Rome To The One Of Fictive Music The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu The Well Dressed Man With A Beard The World As Meditation
