helen vendler, reviewing a bio of wallace stevens in the july 14 new york review of books:
A poet who defines himself as a a volcano and a sea has two functions: as a volcano, he addresses the upper air of the invisible; as a sea, he displays the depth and volume of things worth beholding.
How is one to write a biography of a person composed of vertical rhetoric (Apostrophe) and horizontal sense-perception (Behold)?
how indeed?
