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

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