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December 22, 2006
“Wallace Stevens Can’t Stop Me”: Poetry Friday
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
-Wallace Stevens in The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, ed. by Holly Stevens
Put your hands in the air for Wallace Stevens! [insert crowd noise]
Let's also give a hand to Yuletide cheer, which, in my case, involves a day off sitting around in my yoga pants with a mocha mint latte listening to Vince Guaraldi while working my New York Times Crossword Puzzle Book. Ho, ho, ho!
[Visit Liz for this Friday's roundup.]
Posted by adrienne at December 22, 2006 11:41 AM