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Now You See it: Poems. UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-893311-57-2. Long for this world: new and selected poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, ISBN 9780822958147; Uses of Adversity, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998, ISBN 9780822938682; The Makings of Happiness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, ISBN ...
Opinion is divided about whether the poem expresses Stevens' distaste for romanticism in art, a "mordant satire...of all the things that other poems hold sacred"; [1] or whether the poem is about "the refreshment that art, in its palace, gives to reality". [2] In support of the ironic reading, the stanza that includes the inscrutable line "Ti ...
Ronald or Ron Wallace may refer to: Ronald Wallace (theologian) (1911–2006), theologian and professor of biblical theology; Ronald Wallace (poet), American poet and professor of poetry and English; Ronald Wallace (politician) (1916–2008), mayor of Halifax, Canada, 1980–1991; Ron Wallace (singer), American country music singer
Michael Sharkey, writing in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature called the anthology "a brave effort to display the development and achievement of a body or work that will bear comparison with any in the 'Anglosphere'", noting that Page's definition of the world 'classic' "is flexible enough to admit contemporary works that he would happily take with him into ...
The overall impression is at once macabre and archly humorous. Thoughts of death and decay are secondary to the sound of 'Badroulbadour', the verb 'decline', and the poem's syntactic architecture. But in essence the poem conveys a sense of the transient nature of beauty. For another perspective on this transience see "Peter Quince at the Clavier".
The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa.. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's When the Towers Fell is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for."
What Walter Wallace Jr.'s family wanted when they dialed 911 for the third time in a single day on Oct. 26 was for medical providers and an ambulance to come treat and rescue him — a 27-year-old ...
The protagonist of Andrew Smith's novel Grasshopper Jungle frequently cites "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" as his favorite poem. Ronald Shannon Jackson quotes the poem in various Last Exit performances. The Empire of Ice Cream is the title of a novelette and a short-story collection of the same name by American writer Jeffrey Ford. [8]