2022-07-30 International Friendship Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·IX (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance

       Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate

       And of its nature, the idiom thereof.

2022-07-23, Dog Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·VIII (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       Can we compose a castle-fortress-home,

       Even with the help of Viollet-le-Duc,

       And see the MacCullough there as major man?

      &nb

2022-07-23, National Day of the Cowboy

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·VII (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        It feels good as it is without the giant,

        A thinker of the first idea. Perhaps

2022-07-16 National Bridal Sale Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·VI (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Not to be realized because not to

        Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because

2022-07-16 National Corn Fritters Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·V (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The lion roars at the enraging desert,

        Reddens the sand with his red-colored noise,

      &nbs

2022-07-10 National Clerihew Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·IV (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    The first idea was not our own. Adam

    In Eden was the father of Descartes

    And Eve made air the mirror of herself,

  &nbs

2022-07-09 National Sugar Cookie Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·III (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         The poem refreshes life so that we share,

         For a moment, the first idea… It satisfies

         Belief in an immaculate beginnin

2022-07-04 Independence Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·II (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       It is the celestial ennui of apartments

       That sends us back to the first idea, the quick

       Of this invention; and yet so poisonous

   &nb

2022-07-03 Independence Weekend

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·I (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea

        Of this invention, this invented world,

        The incon