2026-08-27 Hungry Ghost Festival

【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Upon these premises propounding, he

        Projected a colony that should extend

        To the dusk of a whistling south below the south.

        A compre

2026-08-26 National Got Checked Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.

        That's better. That's worth crossing seas to find.

        Crispin in one laconic phrase laid bare

        His cloudy drift and planned a colony.

2026-08-25 National Banana Split Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        He came. The poetic hero without palms

        Or jugglery, without regalia.

        And as he came he saw that it was spring,

        A time abhorrent

2026-08-24 International Strange Music Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Thus he conceived his voyaging to be

        An up and down between two elements,

        A fluctuating between sun and moon,

        A sally into gol

2026-08-23 National Sponge Cake Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

……

How many poems he denied himself

In his observant progress, lesser things

Than the relentless contact he desired;

How many sea-masks he ignored; what sounds

He shut out from his tempering ear; what thoughts,

Like jades affecting the sequestered bride;

And what descants, he sent to banishment!

Perhaps the Arctic moonlight really gave

The liaison, the blissful liaison,

Betw

2026-08-22 National Bao Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The book of moonlight is not written yet

        Nor half begun, but, when it is, leave room

        For Crispin, fagot in the lunar fire,

        Who, in the hubbub of his pilgrimage

    &nb

2026-08-21 Hawaiian Shirt Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        And while the torrent on the roof still droned

        He felt the Andean breath. His mind was free

        And more than free, elate, intent, profound

    &nbs

2026-08-20 World Mosquito Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        So much for that. The affectionate emigrant found

        A new reality in parrot-squawks.

        Yet let that trifle pass. Now, as this odd

      &n

2026-08-19 World Photography Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        How greatly had he grown in his demesne,

        This auditor of insects! He that saw

        The stride of vanishing autumn in a park

2026-08-18 National Fajita Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In Yucatan, the Maya sonneteers

        Of the Caribbean amphitheatre,

        In spite of hawk and falcon, green toucan

        And jay, still to the night-bird made their plea,

2026-08-17 National Nonprofit Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Here was the veritable ding an sich, at last,

        Crispin confronting it, a vocable thing,

        But with a speech belched out of hoary darks

      &nb

2026-08-16 National Authenticity Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Could Crispin stem verboseness in the sea,

        The old age of a watery realist,

        Triton, dissolved in shifting diaphanes

        Of b

2026-08-15 Chant at the Moon Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        One eats one pate, even of salt, quotha.

        It was not so much the lost terrestrial,

        The snug hibernal from that sea and salt,

        That

2026-08-14 National Financial Awareness Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

          Nota: Man is the intelligence of his soil,

        The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates

        Of snails, musician of pears, principium

        And lex. Sed quaeritur: Is this same wi

2026-08-13 National Prosecco "Sparkling Wine" Day

【Lulu Morose (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Is there a sharp edge?

            Is there a sharp edge?

            On which to lean

            Like a belly puckered by a spear.

2026-08-11 Ingersoll "The Great Agnostic" Day

【Lulu Gay (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Lulu sang of barbarians before the eunuchs

        Of gobs, who called her orchidean,

        Sniffed her and slapped heavy hands

        Upon her.

        She made the eunuchs ululate.

2026-08-11 Annual Medical Checkup Day

【Romance for a Demoiselle Lying in the Grass (1919-1920?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            It is grass.

            It is monotonous.

            The monotony

2026-08-10 National Lazy Day

【Anecdote of the Abnormal (1919-1920?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        He called hydrangeas purple. And they were.

        Not fixed and deadly, (like a curving line

        That merely makes a ring).

        It was a purple changeable to see.

        And so hydrang

2026-08-09 National Book Lovers Day

【The Indigo Glass in the Grass (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Which is real—

This bottle of indigo glass in the grass,

Or the bench with the pot of geraniums, the stained mattress and the washed overalls drying in the sun?

Which of these truly contains the world?

Neither one, nor the two together.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《草丛中的靛蓝玻璃》(1919)】

华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译

2026-08-08 National Bowling Day

【Piano Practice at the Academy of the Holy Angels (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

The time will come for these children, seated before their long black instruments, to strike the themes of love--

All of them, darkened by time, moved by they know not what, amending the airs they play to fulfill themselves;

Seated before these shining forms, like the duskiest glass, reflecting the piebald of roses or what you will.

Blanche, the blonde, whose eyes are not wholly

2026-08-07 International Beer Day

【Exposition of The Contents of A Cab (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Victoria Clementina, negress,

            Took seven white dogs

            To ride in a cab.

     &nbs

2026-08-06 National Gossip Day

【Peter Parasol (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Aux taureaux Dieu cornes donne

            Et sabots durs aux chevaux …

            To bulls God gives horns,

            And hard hooves to horses…

2026-08-04 National Night Out

【An Early Version of "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" (1918-1919?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In the land of the peacocks, the prince thereof,

        Grown weary of romantics, walked alone,

        In the first of evening, pondering.

2026-08-04 Single Working Women's Day

【Stanzas for "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Poets of pimpernel, unlucky pimps

        Of pomp, in love and good ensample, see

        How I exhort her, huckstering my woe.

        "Oh, hideous, horrible, horrendous hocks!"

   &nb

2026-07-25 National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

【Stanza for "Le monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        I peopled the dark park with gowns

        In which were yellow, rancid skeletons.

        On! How suave a purple passed me by!

        But twiddling mon idée, as old men will,