Quotes from Wallace Stevens's books, and about them
Artful on Anecdote of the Jar: “here's a jarring anecdote from Wallace Stevens: I placed a jar in Tennessee”
Blue Nights on Domination of Black: “I read the poems by Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot, 'Domination of Black' and 'New Hampshire'... 'Domination of Black' had peacocks in it. I think of 'Domination of Black' every time I see the peacocks.”
How to Read and Why on Of Mere Being: “the reader may remember the death image in Stevens's much earlier poem "Sun day Morning," written forry years before "Of Mere Being"”