Inky Pilgrimage
Mark Ford, 24 May 2007
The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie
edited by Donald Blount.
South Carolina, 430 pp., £30.95, January 2006,1 57003 248 3 Show More
edited by Donald Blount.
South Carolina, 430 pp., £30.95, January 2006,
“... instance, by the distance between ‘catarrhs’ and ‘guitars’: Then from their poverty they rose, From dry catarrhs, and to guitars They flitted Through the palace walls. Here the incessant rumbling wooings of the gaunt guitarists gradually unite with the women’s insistent erotic dreaming, physically expressed by their ever more extravagant ... ”