From d8a2382b3c50f2cbd8092f2bc54a19e697c7a08e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Lemon Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:24:13 +0000 Subject: Swapped around some templates and added a book review about W Stevens --- ..._whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md b/content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f42e507 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: "The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens" +date: 2024-02-13T22:58:33Z +draft: false +daily_read: false +type: "reading/books" +tags: ["poetry"] +summary: "A biography of a poet whose poetry can be so difficult that Frank Skinner seems yet to know how best to cover him in his poetry podcast (February 2024)." +--- + +I am a fantastically slow reader. +I bought this book in summer of 2023 and as of February 2024, I am on page 88. +Not that this is not a good book: it is a good book. +I put it down for several months. +A caesura, but a recoverable one. + +I am enjoying reading about Stevens' life in the early 20th century and the feel and smell of this nice hardback book. +Reading about a literary figure and great poet who led a "boring" life, (Wallace being an insurance man). +But he knew [William Carlos Williams](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow) and that [French guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp), who was a pioneer of Dada. + +He drank. +He smoked. +He wrote poems. + +How good a poet was Stevens? + +Why has Frank Skinner not covered him yet? -- cgit v1.2.3