Modern-ish Poets: Wallace Stevens

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford

Mark and Seamus look to that great poet of winter and snow, Wallace Stevens, considering his anecdote-proof life, the capitalist economy of his imagination, and his all-American poetry of precise abstraction.

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