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Saturday, January 06, 2007
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
I love the way people talk about Wallace Stevens's poem "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm." Adrienne Rich discusses it beautifully in her book "What Is Found There." Alex Ross just discussed it
here
(he also quotes the whole poem).
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